Rabbi James Stone Goodman
• Published February 15, 2024
In the portion Terumah, we encounter the first objectification of the spirit: The Sanctuary as it will house what was previously the unencumbered Spirit.
God says, build the place out of Me: Make [of] Me a Mikdash/holy place, and I will dwell [Shakhanti/Shekhinah]...
BY DOROTHY FIRESTONE, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published February 13, 2024
I have been cooking all 73 years of my married life, and I know when something needs salt or when it has enough. But I knew little about sodium, a chief ingredient in salt.
Then I was introduced to Sue Picus, a semi-retired registered dietician...
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Journaling is all the rage. That’s why I’m starting a Rage Journal. It’ll be healthy to get the anger out.
Life always needs new coping strategies, so when...
In the days immediately following Oct. 7, Jewish professionals around the world knew that the landscape of Israel education would change forever. As the full spectrum of the atrocities carried out by Hamas terrorists came to light and the Israeli response...
Help the farmers of Israel
I came home to Israel from University City over 41 years ago. As a child I remember in 1967 and 1973 U.S. Jews getting on planes to help Israel when there was a manpower shortage due to the war all the people called up to defend...
By Rabbi Andrea Goldstein
• Published February 8, 2024
This Shabbat, many congregations in St. Louis and across the country will be celebrating Repro Shabbat, a Shabbat dedicated to lifting up the Jewish values of reproductive freedom and justice.
Repro Shabbat occurs annually when Jews around the world...
Last fall, I interviewed Franki Cambeleta about horror films and the horror film festival at the Hi-Pointe Theater last October. Cambeleta is the owner of Shift Films and host of the “Haunted Garage” and the “Lost Boys of Hannibal” podcasts.
I...
How often do you mention God in your everyday speech? Maybe more often than you might think. God shows up frequently in our rote phrases.
“God bless you,” after we sneeze.
“Baruch HaShem,” “Blessed is the Name,” as an answer to “How...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 25, 2024
Dear Teens and Young People,
You are special and wonderful and perfect just the way you are. But there are some things you need to know to be even better. Well, good news! Aunt Amy has got your back with some advice you didn’t ask for.
It’s easy...
You cannot make peace with people who do not want peace’
No doubt, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen believed sincerely in their own good intentions when they passed their resolution last week calling on President Joe Biden to work toward a cease-fire...
By Rabbi Josef Davidson
• Published January 10, 2024
In this week’s Torah portion, Va’era, Moses is revisited by God after Moses’ message is rejected by the enslaved Israelites. When God instructs him to go a second time to deliver his message to Pharaoh as well, Moses complains, “The Israelites...
According to Chabad, tzedakah is the uniquely Jewish perspective on charity.
Tzedakah is a mainstay of Jewish life. The sages teach that the world was built upon kindness. Tzedakah goes one step beyond. Literally translated as “justice” or “righteousness,”...
