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...

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...

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...

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,”...

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...

Do you want to live forever? Do you want to be remembered? Who are you and who do you wish to be? Questions such as these loom large in each of our lives as we move gracefully or otherwise through the passing years of our personal journeys. This year...

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...