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...

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,”...

When the renowned Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky lived in Toronto in the 1940s, his synagogue presented him with a silver platter as a present for Purim. A few days later, one of the shul members saw Rav Kamenetsky in a Toronto pawn shop with this very...

We can still find miracles of light in our seasons of darkness The week before Oct. 7, my newly engaged son and his fiancée were enjoying the Festival of Sukkos in Israel. Jake and Morgan had tickets to return to St. Louis the following week, when...

It’s time to bid farewell to 2023. Many of us see a new year as a way of starting fresh, attacking a new goal and making positive changes. Really, we’re just moving from one day to the next but somehow seeing a new year on the calendar makes it feel...

We have been horrified over the past weeks to bear witness to antisemitic tropes used to cast aspersions on Jewish political candidates in Missouri. This month, State Representative Sarah Unsicker attacked her erstwhile opponents in the Missouri Attorney...

For years, she has stared at me every time I walk down my hallway. Gustel, barely 14 years old, stands out among her nine sisters, which include my late husband’s Oma Sophie, in the one remaining family photo from Germany taken in 1910.   Self-assured...

To the signatories of the open letter to Jewish organizations: you address your concerns to the wrong party. The war in Gaza could end today if Hamas released the hostages and surrendered.  You present a one-sided history of the Arab-Israeli conflict,...