Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published September 20, 2023
We just celebrated Rosh Hashanah — happy 5784 — and Yom Kippur is right around the corner. This period in between is called The 10 Days of Teshuvah. It is meant to be a time for Jews to look inward, have self-reflection and introspection. It’s...
In defense of recent letter to editor
In the Sept. 6 edition, several writers objected to Galit Lev-Harir’s Aug. 23 letter to the editor, “No historical equivalent” regarding the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum co-sponsoring (with the...
Is it possible to change? Can we actually make the world, or others, or even ourselves better?
A well-known folktale from our Jewish tradition tells of a king who had a wayward son. In anger and frustration, the king banishes his son from the kingdom....
Daniel Greenfield, JNS
• Published September 5, 2023
ADL is a garbage leftist organization. It never was good for anything, but under its current head, Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s become a generic woke group dedicated to intersectionality. I have spent over a decade exposing ADL for what it is, including,...
Philip Roth was a controversial Jewish author, to say the least. I enjoyed reading his writing, and one of his books, in particular, was very impactful in my youth. It was the collection of short stories entitled “Goodbye Columbus.”
The title...
(JTA) — Last week we did it: My wife and I dropped our eldest son off for his first year of college. As you can imagine, it is a heady, emotional moment. There is pride and joy mixed with anxiety and the bittersweet sense that this primary chapter of...
By Rabbi Ze’ev Smason & Barbara A. Olevitch
• Published August 25, 2023
Pamela R. Winnick told a fascinating story about her father’s illness in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2006. Medical residents had repeatedly asked the family to agree to disconnect his life supports. They claimed that the patient would have...
When you think about earlier eras in American history, are you nostalgic, or are you relieved to be living today? It’s a generally conservative impulse to feel like life was better in some imagined or remembered past. And it’s a generally progressive...
By Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published August 23, 2023
For many students in our area, school is back in session. My older son is now a senior in high school. A senior! I’m going to die. I’m going to cry, then throw up, then die, then cry some more, then run to the bathroom, then die again, and then cry....
On Nov. 18, a headline in Education Week read: “Nearly 300 Books Removed from Schools Under Missouri’s ‘Sexually Explicit Materials’ Law.”
School boards throughout Missouri have removed from school libraries books thought to violate the...
No historical equivalent
I was surprised to see that the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is hosting a program called “The American Dream Deferred: One Family’s Incarceration During WWII + Holocaust Museum Tour,” which is sponsored by...
I recently returned from leading a delegation of 19 students from Washington University in St. Louis to Israel to learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This fact-finding mission, called the Campus Leaders Israel Experience, travels through...
