The gatherings we held for healing from the fear and anxiety caused by the election of Donald Trump seem a distant memory. The initial shock has given way to deep concerns for our democracy and the loss of hope that the office would be bigger than the...
The festival of Shavuot, which begins at sundown May 30, focuses on Moses receiving the tablets of the law. But an even more fascinating part of the story is when he shatters them. In an astounding midrash, or rabbinic commentary, Moses’ act is portrayed...
While extensively covered by both the national and local media, the vandalism crime committed at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in February of this year has been effectively swept under the rug by the University City Police Department. The Vice President...
I've sent out hundreds of resumes over my career, applying for just about every kind of job. As a business owner, and as a search and outplacement consultant, I've personally reviewed hundreds of resumes.Some resumes are great, most are just ok, many...
By Cathleen Kronemer, NSCA-CPT, Certified Health Coach
• Published May 19, 2017
I just love sharing good news, so unabashedly, here it comes: On May 10th, our daughter and son-in-law became proud parents of a baby girl…their first child and our first grandchild. After reining in the floodgate of my emotions, I was able to take...
Recently, the following two things happened to me on the same day. I celebrated the 15-year anniversary of my retirement, and I received a note from a cousin listing some of the things that Will Rogers, the great American humorist, said about growing...
When the British people voted last June to leave the European Union, it was as shocking an outcome as the U.S. presidential election in November. On March 29, British Prime Minister Theresa May formally began the difficult process of negotiating Britain’s...
Several years ago, while covering organized labor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, I covered a story about a cookie company in Overland that was closing. Its Italian corporate owner was moving the operation to Ontario.The story got into the details of...
The St. Louis Rabbinical Association condemns the statement by Missouri State Rep. Rick Brattin on the floor of the Missouri House of Representatives that “there is a distinction between being a human being and being homosexual.” We are especially...
NEW YORK (JTA) — No one who has lived in Israel or even visited for an extended time can forget the top-of-the-hour news broadcasts on Kol Yisrael, or Israel Radio.Before its shutdown this week as part of a byzantine reform of public broadcasting, the...
Simone Rodan-Benzaquen and Julie Decroix
• Published May 16, 2017
PARIS (JTA) — In the French presidential campaign just concluded, discussion of foreign policy was largely forgotten. Nonetheless, Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, faces several critical global issues, among them the Israeli-Palestinian peace...
What are you growing this spring? If you are a gardening aficionado, the answers may include beefsteak tomatoes, 3 varieties of lettuce, sugar snap peas, herbs and zucchini. These have all the makings of a truly healthy diet, and no doubt will be incorporated...
