By Alissa Barnholtz, Senior, Parkway Central High School.
• Published October 18, 2023
I can’t stay quiet anymore.
I am proud to be Jewish. I am scared to be Jewish.
I am highly aware that I’m not an expert on this topic, but I do know that what happened at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 7 in Israel was an act of terrorism.
More than 4,400...
BY NATHAN ARST, Senior, Parkway Central High School.
• Published October 18, 2023
The Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 changed Israel and the world forever. An astounding 1,300 people were killed in a brutal rampage that murdered more Jews in a single day since the Holocaust.
As soon as I heard about the attacks, I reached out...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 5, 2023
I cannot stop watching football lately, but it’s only for one reason. Taylor Swift and her new boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs player Travis Kelce.
My husband recently overheard me playing a game clip on the computer and said, “Are we watching football...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published September 20, 2023
We just celebrated Rosh Hashanah — happy 5784 — and Yom Kippur is right around the corner. This period in between is called The 10 Days of Teshuvah. It is meant to be a time for Jews to look inward, have self-reflection and introspection. It’s...
In defense of recent letter to editor
In the Sept. 6 edition, several writers objected to Galit Lev-Harir’s Aug. 23 letter to the editor, “No historical equivalent” regarding the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum co-sponsoring (with the...
Daniel Greenfield, JNS
• Published September 5, 2023
ADL is a garbage leftist organization. It never was good for anything, but under its current head, Jonathan Greenblatt, it’s become a generic woke group dedicated to intersectionality. I have spent over a decade exposing ADL for what it is, including,...
(JTA) — Last week we did it: My wife and I dropped our eldest son off for his first year of college. As you can imagine, it is a heady, emotional moment. There is pride and joy mixed with anxiety and the bittersweet sense that this primary chapter of...
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,...
