Since it came into our lives last year, I’ve had mixed feelings about “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Its jokes sometimes feel like the kind of things we say among other fellow Jews, but not to the rest of the world. The show does have a comforting...

Your hard drive crashes. You pitch your laptop and buy a new one.You spill merlot on your favorite white shirt. You drop it in the trash.You total your car.You have it towed to the junkyard.You die. Why should those you leave behind treat your body any...

Appreciation for Rehfeld  I agree with everything the Jewish Light wrote about [Jewish Federation of St. Louis President and CEO] Andrew Rehfeld in the Dec. 26 editorial “The Remarkable Rehfeld Record.” However, there’s more that I’d like to...

A great American Jewish jurist once argued against the idea of a “hyphenated American.” He said there was no place in America for immigrants and their children to hold on to differences based on “race or creed.”“[T]o keep alive difference of...

Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish holiday known as the “New Year of the Trees”, begins at sunset on Jan. 20, 2019 and concludes in the evening of Jan. 21. In the 16th century, devotees of the Kabbalah instituted a Tu B'Shevat seder in which fruits and trees...

“Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”—Winston Churchill, speech to House of Commons, November 1947Winston Churchill’s famous quote rings...

I was edged out on Friday evening. The carefully planned operation was carried out by grandson No. 2, the one with the red hair.“Move over, Pop. I’ll do it,” he said firmly, prodding me in the ribs with a sharp elbow.It’s like this: I say the...

A statement from the St. Louis Women’s MarchAs Jews, we have all heard the allegations of an anti-Semitic bias in the D.C. Women’s March. The St. Louis Women’s March planning committee is releasing this statement to clarify our position, so we...

“We’ve had four good years, but all good things must come to an end.” This statement from Habayit Hayehudi Party chief and Education Minister Naftali Bennett may be the most poignant assessment of last week’s decision to hold elections in April.Set...

(JTA) — The young nation of Israel has, in recent years, witnessed a dwindling of its founding generation—from the passing of statesmen, like Shimon Peres, to the death last week of novelist and political activist Amos Oz. Oz was 79; Israel is but...

Critics say Anti-BDS laws silence a political debate. That’s simply untrue.It sounds outrageous. A speech pathologist in a Texas school district was asked to sign a pro-Israel pledge. If she refused to go along, she would lose her job. Described in...