A different take on vigil speakersI attended the vigil at the Jewish Community Center last Sunday (Oct. 28) and had a very different reaction than the opinion of Dr. Myron Jacobs (Letters to the Editor, Oct. 31 edition). To me, the program was uplifting...

Condolences from NAACP  On behalf of the St. Louis NAACP I extend our heartfelt condolences to our families and friends within the Jewish community. But it cannot go unsaid that with the establishment of the Third Reich in 1933, German leaders proclaimed...

Synagogues with a rich historyIn the story “Small but dedicated community keeps Belleville synagogue moving forward” (Ohr Chadash Teen Page, Oct. 11), Olivia Riutcel, a freshman at Webster Groves High School, wrote on the merging of two old synagogues...

Remembering Israelis killedSunday morning, just like every working day, Kim Levengrond Yehezkel said goodbye to her 16-month-old son Kai and her husband, Guy, and left her home to go to work in the Barkan Industrial Park in Ariel in Shomron (Judea &...

Support for Amendment 1As the words of Isaiah denouncing corruption and our traditional tikkun olam obligations may still be ringing in our ears from the High Holidays, we recall an earlier passage from Isaiah, 33:15: One “who walks in righteousness...

Don’t shut door on refugeesI applaud the actions of HIAS and the ADL in speaking out against President Trump’s reduction in the number of refugees to be admitted to the United States next year (“Jewish groups criticize decision to cut number of...

U.S. should lead in solving global health crisis Decades of political neglect means almost 5,000 people die daily of tuberculosis (TB). This centuries-old epidemic is now the world’s leading infectious killer, claiming more lives last year than HIV/AIDS...

I have been reading the St. Louis Jewish Light continuously since returning to St. Louis in 1998. Before that, I read it as a child in my parents’ home, though not as I do now.I appreciate the weekly rabbinical columns discussing the parsha, providing...

Commentary on opioid epidemic ‘reflects an outdated narrative’Someone in our Thursday night Shalvah support group for people living with drug and alcohol abuse (Shalvah means serenity in Hebrew) brought me the Aug. 1 commentary in the Jewish Light,...

Missouri Jewish groups pen letter against hatredThe Jewish communities across Missouri welcome the Missouri Republican Party’s comments unequivocally condemning the anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and racist rhetoric of Steve West, who won the...

Giving credit where dueWe all applaud Rabbi Susan Talve’s hard work in protest of our government’s cruel family separation policy. We also applaud the hard work of Rabbi Andrea Goldstein, who was standing next to Talve in two of the photographs that...