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St. Louis Jewish Light

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St. Louis Jewish Light

Commentary

Leo Wolf, Tom Green and Bill Kahn.

They built a museum so we wouldn’t forget—now it’s our turn to remember

By Greg Yawitz, Myron FreedmanPublished April 22, 2025

“We can’t let people ever forget,” said Leo Wolf, chairman emeritus of the St. Louis Holocaust Committee and a Holocaust survivor, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s 1995 coverage of the opening of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. “We...

Deportees wait to be processed at an immigration facility after a flight carrying illegal immigrants from the U.S. arrived in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Two Missouri bills are despicable, very un-Jewish

BY RABBI SUSAN TALVEPublished April 3, 2025

Amidst the sea of suffering the current administration is perpetrating on people here and abroad, I call your attention to anti-immigration legislation in Missouri: SB 58 and SB 72.  SB 58 does a couple of highly problematic and unconstitutional things....

Deportees wait to be processed at an immigration facility after a flight carrying illegal immigrants from the U.S. arrived in San Salvador, El Salvador, June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Should illegal immigrants be deported?

By Rabbi Ze’ev SmasonPublished April 3, 2025

To most people, the 2005 movie “Wedding Crashers” is a lighthearted comedy romp in which two lovelorn bachelors crash weddings to meet women. But imagine the following scenario: At your daughter’s 500-person wedding, a concerned friend informs you...

Washington Post faces major departures: Is Miss Manners next?"

Washington Post faces major departures: Is Miss Manners next?”

Richard WeissPublished January 23, 2025

Dear Miss Manners, I saw recently that columnist Jen Rubin was next in the long line of brilliant journalists who have left the Washington Post and then on Tuesday, Jan. 22, she was followed by Philip Rucker, WaPo’s renowned national editor. I fear...

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