Michael Schwartz has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as part of a six-lawyer team from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions covering a range of sectors including insurance, life sciences, industrials, retail, food, agribusiness...
Brad “Chots” Chotiner will join the professional team at B’nai Amoona as the director of Youth Education and Engagement, beginning in August. In this role, he will serve as director of the Meyer Kranzberg Learning Center and youth director. For...
At the J Associates' recent annual luncheon, Myra Rosenthal received the Mitzvah Star award. She was honored for her dedication and volunteerism to the Garden of Eden, which she co-founded 10 years ago. The garden is located on the Jewish Community Center...
Sandy Palans was one of 55 veterans on board the 101st Greater St. Louis Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.
He served in the army from 1956-1958 in Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Greater St. Louis Honor Flight honors area veterans’ service by providing...
Doug Cohen and Marty Hogan competed in the National Masters Racquetball Association national championships last month in St. Louis. The NMRA is exclusively for racquetball players in the 45-and-over age groups. Cohen placed first in the men’s singles...
Lisa Lipsitz, owner of Looks by Lisa & Co, opened a new studio in the Slavin Building in Clayton. Services are by appointment only and include hair and makeup for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, headshots, or any special occasion. Beginning in the...
Rabbi Andrea Goldstein of Congregation Shaare Emeth received two degrees recently from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion: Interfaith Doctor of Ministry Program for Education in Pastoral Care and Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa,...
Joel Iskiwitch has been instated as Board Chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). Iskiwitch succeeds Deborah Price who has served as Board Chair since 2021.
Joel Iskiwitch, JD, CPA is an active volunteer with the St. Louis nonprofit...
Alan Spector and Marty Stein were two of the 14 inducted into the Greater St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame last month. Spector, a member of Congregation Shaare Emeth and the board of the Jewish Light is a baseball author and former player at the...
On Thursday, May 11, during the annual Jewish Community Relations Council Tzedek Awards at the Clayton Plaza Hotel, Maharat Rori Picker Neiss, the organization’s executive director, was surprised with a proclamation from U.S. Representative Cori Bush,...
Deb Dubin will serve on St. Louis Public Radio’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee of their community advisory board. She is the chief philanthropy officer for Moneta Group and attends Central Reform Congregation.
