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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Opinion

Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Free Health Care Advice for Republicans

BY ERIC MINKPublished August 2, 2017

Not that they’ve asked, but I have some advice for Republicans on handling the chaos in health care that they started creating seven years ago and that now imprisons them.It’s not about power gamesmanship for party insiders. It’s about policy, practices...

Letters to the Editor: August 2, 2017

Published August 2, 2017

A Sad RealityIt’s not about Jews and Muslims, it’s not about Israelis and Arabs. It’s about those who support terrorism and those who stand up to it. Terrorists killed two police officers on Temple Mount. Those who stand against terror install...

Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach, is a longtime fitness instructor at the Jewish Community Center. She is also a member of the St. Louis Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

The couscous cousins

By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health CoachPublished July 27, 2017

This summer, my husband and I are taking our first journey to Israel, where we will celebrate 25 wonderful years of marriage.  As typical first-timers, we have selected a semi-private tour to guide us through the country’s rich history and spectacular...

J. Martin Rochester, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is author of 10 books on international and American politics, including his latest: “New Warfare: Rethinking Rules for An Unruly World.”

Time to punish bad behavior

By Marty RochesterPublished July 26, 2017

O.J. is free again.As a society we seem to tolerate and even encourage bad behavior. Our major institutions, such as public schools and government, do not do a very effective job of using rewards to incentivize good behavior and punishments to dis-incentivize...

The Aish HaTorah group of 16 women from St. Louis pose in Israel this summer.

Touring Aish HaTorah women from St. Louis form bond with Israel

By Debra KlevensPublished July 26, 2017

For an eighth year, Aish HaTorah of St. Louis partnered with the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) to bring womenwith children under 18 years old on an eight-day journey through Israel. After 12 hours of traveling,the 16 women arrived in Tel...

Letters to the Editor: July 26, 2017

Published July 26, 2017

Court ruling and the church-state divideEvery argument before the Supreme Court — winning and losing alike — defines a potential slippery slope. Perhaps we can draw some comfort regarding the worrisome playground decision by considering the slippery...

Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach, is a longtime fitness instructor at the Jewish Community Center. She is also a member of the St. Louis Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Prenatal pump-up

By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health CoachPublished July 20, 2017

As many of you know, becoming a first-time grandma is quite an experience.  Not even raising your own children prepares you for the transformation of your child into a parent.  It is a glorious thing. Our daughter had been an avid exerciser for years,...

Carla Naumburg, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker and writer. She is the author of two books, “Parenting in the Present Moment: How to Stay Focused on What Really Matters” [Parallax, 2014] and “Ready, Set, Breathe: Practicing Mindfulness with Your Children for Fewer Meltdowns and a More Peaceful Family” [New Harbinger, 2015].

How an anxious Jewish mother became a free-range parent

By Carla Naumburg, Kveller via JTAPublished July 20, 2017

I am not built to be a free-range mother. I am anxious and overprotective by nature, and my years of experience as a social worker have only increased my awareness of everything that could happen to my daughters, from sexual abuse to traumatic brain injuries.If...

David Bernstein is president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the representative voice of the Jewish community relations movement. Follow him on Twitter @DavidLBernstein.

Intersectionality excludes and includes. Jews must learn the difference.

By David Bernstein, JTAPublished July 20, 2017

Last year, I wrote an opinion piece for JTA about a term and a trend few Jews over the age of 30 had ever heard of: intersectionality. Coined in the late 1980s, intersectionality posits that various forms of oppression — racism, sexism, classism, ableism...

Letters to the Editor: July 19, 2017

Published July 20, 2017

Editorial off-base I am appalled at your June 28 editorial headline, “Bibi’s Biggest Blunder,” about the Israeli prime minister’s cancellation of plans for a pluralistic prayer site at the Western Wall. Women in Judaism are far from being considered...

Larry Levin is the former publisher/CEO of the Jewish Light. 

Devotion to Israel is bigger than single issues

By Larry LevinPublished July 19, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron’s emphatic declaration that anti-Zionism is a reinvention of anti-Semitism is spot on. Most, if not all, of those who oppose the existence of a safe and secure Israel as a Jewish homeland perpetuate false equivalencies,...

Robert A. Cohn is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the St. Louis Jewish Light.

Don’t allow terrorists to regroup in Iraq

By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished July 19, 2017

he apparent routing of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in the Iraqi city of Mosul and a similar outcome expected in the Syrian city of Raqqa have been greeted with an almost eerie silence by all but a few media outlets.Richard Engel, the longtime chief foreign...

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