“On the Waterfront,” a classic 1954 American movie featured in a film studies course I teach at Webster University, opens with the murder of Joey Doyle.A young longshoreman who loads and unloads cargo ships on the docks of New York, Doyle has stood...
The Jewish calendar is replete with Holy Days as well as fun festival-type holiday celebrations. This March, Purim offers us an opportunity to experience one of our more upbeat holidays. While observance runs the gamut from reading the Scroll of Esther...
By Leah Borden and Steven Puro
• Published February 28, 2019
In traditional Judaism, anger as an emotion is deprecated, and Jewish history to this day shows that anger at legitimate oppression can be turned against Jews. However, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller in a visit to St. Louis acknowledged that anger can sometimes...
In Israel, there is perhaps no politician more associated today with the two-state solution than Tzipi Livni. As the country’s former foreign minister, lead negotiator with the Palestinians and two-time leader of the opposition, Livni has warned Israelis...
By Jonathan S. Tobin
• Published February 28, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s decision to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential race set off some alarm bells for the pro-Israel community.The Vermont Socialist is probably the most critical towards Israel of all the possible major contenders for the nomination....
JCRC responds to articleAlthough we are loathe to continue this conversation, we are highly disappointed that the Jewish Light chose to report on the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Letter to the Editor in the Post-Dispatch without printing the...
I am one of 77 million baby boomers in the United States – among the very first, having been born just a couple of months after World War II ended. According to AARP, 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every day. Sixty-five percent plan to work past...
LOS ANGELES — I was born in 1995, which means a lot of things. The Twin Towers toppled when I was only in kindergarten. I’m a digital native. In my lifetime, Israel has always existed. And most people have no idea what the word “Zionism” means.At...
It’s both fascinating and painful to watch members of the St. Louis business community join with selected public officials and others to roll out the new Better Together plan, which aims to combine St. Louis city and county into a metro government.Fascinating,...
(JTA) — In Israel, there is perhaps no politician more associated today with the two-state solution than Tzipi Livni. As the country’s former foreign minister, lead negotiator with the Palestinians and two-time leader of the opposition, Livni has warned...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published February 19, 2019
Dear JTA,I am an elected official in a large democracy in the Western hemisphere. A lot of my colleagues have gotten into trouble recently for using anti-Semitic “tropes.” I know what anti-Semitism is, but am less sure how that differs from a “trope.”...
A poor choice of subjects With all of the good people doing great things in our community, I was disgusted to read the article, “Ticket or Not, St. Louis sports fan finds a way in” in the Jan 30 edition. This article lauded the juvenile, selfish...
