Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 24, 2024
Athletes have until May 8 to register for the 44th Annual St. Louis Senior Olympics, set for Memorial Day Weekend. This year's competition boasts over 90 individual and team events, including some new events to go along with beloved favorites.
Contrary...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 15, 2024
Former Major League Baseball pitcher and St. Louis sports icon Ken Holtzman, who played for five teams, pitched two no-hitters and was a three-time World Series Champion, died Monday, April 15.. He was 78.
Holtzman is the winningest Jewish pitcher...
Carol B. Lundgren, Light Executive Editor
• Published April 10, 2024
The following story first appeared in the Jewish Light on Nov. 17, 1982.
Butch Yatkeman was one of the first to enter and one of the last to leave Busch Memorial Stadium for the historic Game Seven of this year's World Series. But he saw just a scant...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 7, 2024
St. Louis University announced Josh Schertz has been hired as its new head coach of the Billikens' men's basketball program.
The former Indiana State coach was a 2024 Red Auerbach Coach of the Year nominee, an award presented by the Jewish Coaches...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 3, 2024
The St. Louis Cardinals won their first World Series in 1926, over the New York Yankees. The following season, just outside the ballpark, Esther Schimmel opened a hot dog stand that would feed countless baseball fans and many players over the next four...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 27, 2024
Today, March 28, is opening day across Major League Baseball. Although our St. Louis Cardinals start the 2024 season on the road in Los Angeles with zero Jewish players on the team, we're still celebrating them and their Jewish connections all season...
(JTA) — The 2023 MLB season represented a watershed moment for Jewish players and fans, as a record 19 Jewish players appeared in at least one big league game.
That record, topping the previous high of 17 in 2022, is likely to be broken yet again...
By Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published March 6, 2024
Former St. Louisan Abbie Strauss sang "The Star Spangled Banner" before the Cardinals 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, March 6, at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla. The national anthem is not the easiest song to perform since it calls...
TIGRE, ARGENTINA (JTA) — For the first time in nearly six decades, a Jewish soccer club is competing in an national soccer tournament in Argentina.
The club, Náutico Hacoaj used its victory in the first round of competition to pay tribute to Israel.
The...
A key to fighting rising Jew-hatred, according to Israel’s premier stock car racer, is to drive a lot of miles in someone else’s car. Alon Day, an Ashdod native, has captured four championships in NASCAR’s Whelen Euro Series, in 2017, 2018, 2020...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 14, 2024
On stage, Andy Gross merges stand-up comedy, mind-bending magic and remarkable ventriloquism. It's this unique brand of entertainment that Gross is bringing to the Lincoln Theatre in Belleville on March 2. Now, if that name, Andy Gross, sounds familiar...
(JTA) — An icon of Black history took center stage in an ad placed by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism on Sunday night’s Super Bowl LVIII, viewed by an estimated 100 million people.
Robert Kraft’s foundation launched the “#StandUptoJewishHate”...
