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...
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...
In October 2020, I wrote about my experience as a delegate to the COVID-friendly “virtual” World Zionist Congress. Two and a half years later, we received word in December that this April there would finally be an in-person “Extraordinary” Congress,...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published August 14, 2023
When I play the “If I knew then what I know now” game, I have so, so many things I would do over. Realizing that my Barbie’s hair wouldn’t grow back after I cut it is definitely on the list.
When my editor, Queen Ellen Futterman, challenged...
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Growing up, I had the...
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For most of my life I have...
During the earning years, financial priorities for individuals are in two phases: First, finding a home and navigating life on one’s own; and second, starting and supporting a family with all their related expenses and needs.
Nonprofits also...
JCRC responds to Senator’s tweet
On July 4th, Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted the following quote, which he attributed to founding father Patrick Henry, “This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the...
Every year we invite Elijah to our Passover seders, setting out a glass of wine to welcome him upon arrival. The guy never shows up. Rude. But you know who shows up uninvited all the time? Anxiety. So rude.
It just pops in like a nosy neighbor who...
This story originally appeared on My Jewish Learning.
(JTA) — Next Thursday is Tisha B’Av, the day on which Jews traditionally commemorate the destruction of the two ancient Temples with fasting and other modes of self-denial. The goal of these...
