Helena Cooper has joined the Congregation Shaare Emeth team as director of youth engagement. She is responsible for 3rd-12th grade youth programming including SETYG, madrichim coordinator for religious school, serving on senior staff of Camp Emeth and...

Nash Pratt was elected president of SETYG (Shaare Emeth Temple Youth Group). He is the son of Brooke and Ray Pratt and is a senior at Parkway Central High School.

Cooper Buxner was recently elected AZA’s president of the St. Louis Council of B’nai Brith Youth Organization (BBYO) for the 2024-25 school year. Son of Courtney and Evan Buxner, he is a sophomore at Ladue Horton Watkins High School (LHWHS). Molly...

Jim Rosen was recently inducted into the St. Louis Metropolitan Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame.   A football official for 50 years, he was selected for this honor based on his officiating career and many contributions to the game of football....

Former St. Louisan Eitan B. Kantor received the Michael Staenberg Young Jewish Agency Professional Award at JEWISHcolorado’s annual meeting for his passion for community building and social change. He is launching a major initiative to make the synagogue...

Gail Wechsler’s article, “Expanding Access to Justice: One Public Law Library’s Approach,” is in the July/August issue of the American Association of Law Libraries’ AALL Spectrum magazine. She is the library director at the Law Library Association...

Former St. Louisan Rebecca Katzman’s new book, “Your Vote Matters: How We Elect The US President,” was recently published by Scholastic. Geared towards children in grades 2-5, the book walks readers through the ins and outs of voting in America,...

Samantha Wendling was promoted to director of operations at Congregation Temple Israel. She is responsible for the synagogue’s business operations, including finance and accounting.

The St. Louis Jewish Community Center (the J) welcomes Robyn Hartley as the new Youth Theatre director. The Youth Theatre Program is an all-inclusive educational theatre program for grades K-9. The upcoming production this fall is “Shrek, Jr.”

Ashley Herman has joined the Jewish Federation of St. Louis as annual campaign associate. In this role she will work with donors and communicate how they can make an impact in the Jewish community as well as collaborate on creating marketing strategies...

Laura Whalen is the new board chair of Hillel at Washington University. Although her two-year term has officially started, her era will be ushered in at Hillel’s Evening in the Sukkah on Oct. 21. Whalen is a member of Temple Emanuel.

The Kolot Women’s Choir is set to begin its new season on Sept. 9 with a fresh face at the helm. Zoey Waldman-Schein has been named the new artistic director, succeeding longtime director Betti Blumoff, who passed away suddenly last January. Waldman-Schein,...