By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published 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...
In 2002, I retired from a 33-year career with the Procter & Gamble Company, and I’ve been working ever since. Wait! What? Retired? Working? When coauthor Keith Lawrence and I were doing research for our book, Your Retirement Quest, we interviewed...
In the business world, planning is incredibly difficult and time consuming. It isn't any different when it comes to planning your career. However planning is tremendously important to your success. Basically, planning means putting together a guideline...
(JTA) — 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,...
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach
• Published July 13, 2017
As Americans, we love to celebrate. Any excuse to toast and be happy is welcome in our culture. In keeping with this tradition, August 4th just happens to be National Beer Day! (Who knew, right?)Beer has been a part of civilization since 4000 BC. In...
Failure to veto minimum wage bill will hurt St. LouisansGov. Eric Greitens has allowed the passage of two bills that will have devastating effects on women in our communities. Those bills take away the minimum wage increase the city of St. Louis approved...
Years ago — considerably more than 20 — the legendary Fred Friendly gave me a pocket-size paperback containing the full texts of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the amendments.Friendly, who died in 1998,...
Who would have thought that a random Google search in 2013 would bring me half way around the world to the Baltics and Finland, two places I would have never dreamed of visiting before? Even more surprising is that I would discover Jewish life in these...
Principles of church-state separation are a key protection of religious freedom in America. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits government establishment of religion and allows free exercise of religion to ensure a broad scope...
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach
• Published July 6, 2017
I am a big fan of Zig Ziglar. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the name, Mr. Ziglar is a motivational speaker. I almost always find something valuable and useful in what he has to offer, and have collected his quotes for years.This is one...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman
• Published July 6, 2017
I moved to St. Louis from Ohio. I saw on television that one of the neighborhoods there I used to hang around in is known now for what the news called an opioid epidemic. The newscaster asked a woman on the street: How many houses on this street had someone...
By Harvey Wallace, Andrew Rehfeld & Heschel Raskas
• Published July 6, 2017
We live at a time when the Jewish People in Israel and throughout the world face deep and abiding challenges, from rising global anti-Semitism to efforts to delegitimize the democratic Jewish State. These times require us to find paths to unify and bring...
