Teacher calls for increased background checks for gun purchases[Editor’s note: The following is a letter the writer first sent to Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.]I am a public school teacher at Ladue Horton Watkins High School. This is my 20th year at Ladue...
We were delighted to see Rabbi Deborah Waxman’s commentary on “Why the Reconstructionist Movement is rebranding” in the Jan. 31 issue of the Jewish Light. We want the St. Louis community to know that there is a strong local Reconstructionist presence....
Kansas case should give Missouri anti-BDS law supporters pauseOn Jan. 30, a federal court ruled against a Kansas law requiring state contractors to swear they will not boycott Israel. In a strongly worded decision, the court determined that the law violates...
This is in regard to the Jewish Light’s Jan. 24 article “Digital Provocateur.” Let me state at the outset that I don’t know Russel Neiss nor have I read any of his writings until now. But I appreciate the prominent coverage given by the Light...
In Harris Frank’s letter to the editor “Millstone Remembered” (Jan. 10 edition), Mr. Frank wrote that Mr. Millstone’s “philanthropy did not stop” with St. Louis. On our first trip to Israel our guide gave the group a little historical trivia....
Better togetherI want to thank the Jewish Light for its front-page story last week highlighting SB 849, the bipartisan “anti-discrimination against Israel” bill that was introduced last week by Mo. Sens. Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, and Jill Schupp...
Nine years ago, I. E. Millstone took himself to a better place (he thought) and in so doing our Jewish community lost our greatest, modern-day hero. For more reasons than he would ever want listed – or that space might permit – there will very probably...
Preserve crucial foreign assistance fundingYour Dec. 27 editorial “Persistence, not Petulance “ notes the need for international cooperation to counter global threats, and quotes President Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy blueprint for the...
The reality of climate changeProfessor Marty Rochester’s Dec. 20 commentary contains so many misstatements that I almost don’t know where to begin. To his credit, Rochester acknowledges that man-made climate change is real and is a potentially very...
Reach Every Mother and Child ActDuring the holidays, it’s difficult to reconcile images of plentiful feasting — in media and at my own table — with the reality of poor nutrition for people in extreme poverty. I am especially moved by stories about...
Demonizing IsraelA letter in the Nov 22 issue of the Light written by representatives from Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) claimed that JVP is not “demonizing” Israel. Rather, JVP is merely describing, detailing and chronicling actual practices in which...
Moving event on Jewish refugeesNov. 30 is Memorial Day in Israel, marking the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab lands in the 1940s and 1950s. Because Jews had resided in some of those lands, such as Persia (Iran) and Babylonia (Iraq) for thousands...
