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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

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Former St. Louis cantor hits all the notes singing national anthem at Cardinals game

By Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished 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...

The Hacoaj team posing with a banner honoring Israel. (Courtesy)

A professional soccer tournament in Argentina features a Jewish team for the first time in 57 years

Juan Melamed, JTAPublished March 1, 2024

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...

Alon Day at Richmond Raceway in 2018. Author, Zach Catanzareti via Wikicommons Photos.

Jewish NASCAR champion Alon Day shifts gears to tackle rising Jew-hatred

Mike Wagenheim, JNSPublished February 20, 2024

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...

1980s racquetball legend coming home with a brand new comedy show

1980s racquetball legend coming home with a brand new comedy show

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished 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...

Clarence Jones, left, and Robert Kraft (Courtesy of Foundation to Combat Antisemitism)

Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl ad about antisemitism featured MLK speechwriter Clarence Jones

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished February 11, 2024

(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”...

Senior Olympics adds 3 events that hoopers, golfers and strong people will love

Senior Olympics adds 3 events that hoopers, golfers and strong people will love

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished February 5, 2024

For the past 43 summers in St. Louis, thousands of athletes aged 50 and over have competed in more than 90 events as part of the St. Louis Senior Olympics. This year, the 44th annual event is adding three new events to the slate. New events Long-time...

Lee Wielansky and Nick Dunlap.

Lee Wielansky hit ’em straight to become Pro-Am Winner at American Express Tournament!

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 24, 2024

Lee Wielansky had an especially good vantage point to watch the American Express Tournament in La Quinta, Calif. last weekend. He was competing in the PGA Tour event. Wielansky, 72, was also the winner of the pro-am portion of the tournament at 34 under...

A junior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Nelson Vickar is a top goalie prospect and last year was named one of Jewish Telegraph Agency’s 36 Jewish student athletes to watch for the 2023-2024 school year.

Ladue junior slides up ranks of elite amateur hockey players

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 23, 2024

Nelson Vickar always puts on his left sock before his right one. It’s a routine and a superstition that’s common for an elite hockey player like Vickar, who first put on a pair of ice skates when he was 2 years old. Vickar, 17, is now a top goalie...

Peyton O’Shaughnessy and Sammy Goldstein at Maccabi.

Sports, Judaism and inspiration converge for local teens at Pan American Maccabi games

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished January 9, 2024

As the war following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel continues in Gaza, now nearing 100 days, it felt good — like a much-needed respite — to talk about Jewish pride and competition with three young Jewish St. Louisans upon their return from the...

DeMar DeRozan displays the jersey he signed at Madison Square Garden.

For an Israeli Chicago Bulls’ fan slain on Oct. 7, a final gift from that team’s star forward

Jon Kalish, The ForwardPublished January 8, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Chicago Bulls’ forward DeMar DeRozan honored the memory of an Israeli basketball fan murdered at the rave near kibbutz...

Chaim Bloom speaks during a press conference at a spring training team workout in Fort Myers, Fla., Feb. 13, 2023.

Cardinals hire Chaim Bloom, formerly seen as Jewish baseball wunderkind

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished January 8, 2024

The St. Louis Cardinals have hired Chaim Bloom as Advisor to the President of Baseball Operations. The team made the announcement Monday afternoon on X. Bloom most recently served as Chief Baseball Officer for the Boston Red Sox from 2019 through 2023. Bloom,...

Aviv sports company participates in the #StandUpToJewishHate campaign by hanging the blue square symbol on basketball nets in the Pais Arena in Jerusalem, April 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Coach of prep player who said ‘I support Hamas, you f–king Jew’ faces consequences

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished January 8, 2024

(New York Jewish Week) — A public high school in New York has fired its varsity girl’s basketball coach after players on its team uttered antisemitic slurs during a game against a Jewish day school. A student has also been dismissed from the team...

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