I listened online to a recent St. Louis County Council meeting regarding a proposed mask mandate ordinance. Hundreds of area physicians had urged the council to adopt the ordinance as COVID cases were spiking, again filling hospital ICUs around the state....

Somewhere in Hollywood, a good movie about John Vogel, the most notorious counterfeiter in U.S. history, exists. Sean Penn's "Flag Day," unfortunately, isn't that movie. It's too bad because the talent assembled here is impressive. Penn, who directed...

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — It was a beautiful sunny afternoon in Brooklyn this week, when my neighborhood came together for “One Crown Heights,” a day of music, entertainment, rides and activities for children and community conversation.  The...

TV images of the lightning-fast Taliban victory in Afghanistan are both stunning and sickening. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., Taliban fighters have utterly defeated...

(Detroit Jewish News via JTA) — In 1985, I stood in the corner of a crowded meeting room at the Wayne State University Student Center, stone-faced, while people I did not know lined up at a microphone to denounce me before the Student Newspaper...

I want to clarify a misstatement I made in the article published July 30, about the passing of Holocaust survivor Mendel Rosenberg. Mendel was not the last remaining survivor of the camps in our community. At the most recent Yom HaShoah commemoration,...

Good morning, New York. Today, New York City will begin requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccinations for range of activities, including dining at an indoor restaurant, working out at a gym or strolling through a museum. (Enforcement will not begin, however,...

With the High Holidays approaching, I’m once again immersed in the throes of family traditions that bring me back to the kitchen. Even though we rarely eat beef these days, one of those traditions is brisket. Like my mother, I’ve been known to...

This article originally appeared on Alma. I first noticed I was different at my Jewish preschool. I came home with a little bag of crayons and a big question: “Why am I ‘tan’ if all the other kids are ‘apricot’?” I don’t remember...

(JTA) — Ten years ago, I sat shocked watching a new music video from one of my creative Jewish heroes, Matisyahu. Newly married and studying in yeshiva, my husband and I were trying to figure out how to uplift the art world in alignment with our Orthodox...

I’ve seen the documentary “Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” three times now: twice on a modest-size home screen via the Hulu streaming service and once on a much bigger screen and sound system during the film’s...

As Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ immediate past board and nominating committee chair, I am pleased to announce, on behalf of Federation’s Board of Directors and Nominating Committee that Greg Yawitz has been asked to extend his term as the current...