Rabbi Ruth Abusch-Magder
• Published September 27, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career they chose, how they met their loved one.
This week Jews around the world will return to our creation story, the one found...
Texas law is ‘egregious’
(Regarding “St. Louis Jewish leaders plan abortion rights advocacy in wake of Texas law,” Sept. 8 edition): Kudos and congratulations to Rabbi Karen Bogard of Central Reform Congregation, together with rabbis from other...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 23, 2021
Shana tova, everyone! As Jews, we are lucky to be able to make New Year’s resolutions twice a year, so we get to feel extra guilt by breaking those resolutions twice a year. We are also experiencing a leap year this 5782, which brings us the gift...
There is no better indicator of how far left and insane our political culture in America has gone than the growing pervasiveness of critical race theory (CRT), which claims that systemic racism is the signature, unchanging feature of American society.
Despite...
Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 23, 2021
Gail Benick, a proud alumna of University City High School Class of 1963 who now lives in Toronto, has published “Memory’s Shadow,” a gripping novel that traces how three generations of Holocaust survivors deal with the never-ending trauma of the...
Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 23, 2021
The brief notice of a loved one’s death was not unlike many similar items sent to the St. Louis Jewish Light: “With great sorrow we announce the passing of Michael G. Kesler, Ph.D., at the age of 97, at his home in East Brunswick, N.J., surrounded...
Sen. Meghan Kallman and Rabbi Lex Rofeberg
• Published September 20, 2021
(JTA) — We are in an era of multiple interlocking crises. From record-breaking heat waves to wildfires to water shortages, from rising authoritarianism to a pandemic rampaging across the world, it is clear that, to survive, human beings will need to...
Adam Milstein, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published September 16, 2021
Dear friends and colleagues, members of the Jewish- American Community:
Good News! Antisemitism is no longer a problem worth combatting! This is the assessment of a large number of fellow Jews I've reached out to over the past few years. The outreach...
(JTA) — Between 2008 and 2011, one of the ways I survived in yeshiva was “The Wire,” HBO’s groundbreaking police drama. Tosafot and Rambam throughout the day, Brother Mouzone, Avon Barksdale and McNulty late at night.
Our beit midrash had a...
This article originally appeared on Kveller.
One of the distinctively Jewish benefits of the pandemic is that we can attend services virtually anywhere in the world. This time last year, probably like many of you, my family chose to spend Rosh Hashanah...
Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman, Belle Etra Yoeli
• Published September 13, 2021
Six years ago, we met as bright-eyed junior staffers working at American Jewish Committee’s office in Washington, D.C. We were fresh out of college, brimming with ambition and eager to help the Jewish people.
Fast-forward to today, we are two...
Andrew Silow-Carroll
• Published September 13, 2021
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Shortly before he died, my dad gave me a trove of family documents, some dating to the 19th century. For the first time I had confirmation of what our family name was before a great-uncle changed it to Carroll when he...
