Stacey Newman, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 24, 2024
Among all the other reasons one goes to Paris on holiday, I had one primary mission during my long-planned bucket-list trip there last month with my daughter.
I was compelled to visit the Wall of Names at the Shoah Memorial, in the old Jewish quarter...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Central Reform Congregation
• Published April 18, 2024
He was accustomed to the close reading of texts, but on that day he sat with eyes that had never seen before and watched words on the page before him grow legs and dance, legs became wings, and words flew off the page like pigeons off of cobblestones.
On...
This week’s Torah portion is infamous for being perhaps the grossest and least relatable portion in the entire Torah. And it’s one of my very favorites.
Tazria focuses on a skin disease known as tzara’at, which is commonly translated as leprosy...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 8, 2024
I was recently asked by the mother of an old friend, “Why I do a “Jewish Joke of the Day.” I responded and she thought I should share my answer.
I believe as Jews, we love to laugh. I believe Jews love to laugh at themselves and laugh at the...
In his State of the Union last month, President Joe Biden referenced Hamas’s “Gaza Health Ministry” casualty numbers, saying that “more than 30,000” Gazans have been killed. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has now said that Israel must make...
Dear Rabbi,
My husband and I just found out we’re expecting. This pregnancy hasn’t come at the best time; we’re facing difficult financial pressures, and it just doesn’t seem like the right time for us to have a child. Friends have advised...
Laws that ban and restrict access to abortion do not stop abortions; they only serve to make them more dangerous and life threatening.
Women die when those who oppose access to safe, legal and affordable abortion set up bans and barriers that confuse...
STLRCA asks for community’s support
As we near the celebration of Passover, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to serve you and for helping our community thrive.
The St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association (STLRCA) is the only clergy...
For the last two years in which I was enrolled in rabbinical school, I served a small congregation every month located in the heart of Cajun Country: Lafayette, La.
Located as it was near the Gulf of Mexico, the residents of Lafayette ate a lot...
As if trolling Facebook and Instagram weren’t enough of a time suck, I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT, an AI language model created by OpenAI (whose CEO, Sam Altman, is Jewish, grew up in St. Louis and graduated from John Burroughs). For those...
By Rabbi Dale Schreiber
• Published March 28, 2024
For an estimated 13 centuries, sacrificial offerings were the way of Jewish worship. The protocols for such practices are recorded in the third book of Torah, Leviticus, or Vayikra in Hebrew.
The rabbis often referred to books of Torah with names reflecting...
Basketball fans are still debating Jordan vs. Lebron—which was the GOAT (the Greatest of All Time). New Yorkers of a certain age used to argue passionately about the relative merits of Mantle, Mays and Snider, who were contemporaneous and competing...
