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(JTA) — A shooting attack on a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov killed at least seven people on Friday, a day after an Israeli raid on a West Bank city ignited vows of retaliation by Palestinian militant...
BILL MOTCHAN , SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 27, 2023
The Congregation B’nai Amoona Men’s Club channeled their inner Paul Bunyan on Thursday evening, Jan. 26, at the Axe House in Valley Park. The event, “Axe Throwing with a Mohel,” needs not much of an explanation. It was a bunch of guys throwing...
By Daniel Shanker and Avital Vorobeychick, Ohr Chadash staff
• Published January 26, 2023
The St. Louis Jewish community includes individuals from many different backgrounds who hold diverse perspectives and beliefs. With such diversity comes the perfect opportunity for individuals to share their story.
Enter the Machshava Literary Magazine....
Central Reform Congregation will welcome artist Siona Benjamin for a Spiritual Enrichment Shabbat Weekend, Feb. 3 and Feb. 4.
Benjamin is an Indian-Jewish artist who spent more than a year working on a painting that would be transformed into a 15-foot...
(JTA) — Doug Emhoff’s itinerary on an upcoming trip to Poland and Germany includes a stop at the factory where Oskar Schindler saved over 1,000 Jews, a Shabbat dinner with local Jewish leaders and a visit to a United Nations center housing refugees...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published January 25, 2023
I never met Adina Talve-Goodman, but I feel as if I know her. The daughter of Rabbis Susan Talve and Jim Goodman of Central Reform Congregation, Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations during her childhood...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 25, 2023
"Bagel Week" may be over but St. Louis' "Bagel Renaissance" continues unabated. Our town's newest bagel shop, Bagel Union, is set to open on Wednesday, February 8th. The team from Union Loafers Cafe and Bread Bakery is bringing its baking skills and...
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published January 25, 2023
(JTA) — Jews made up nearly half of America’s biggest philanthropic donors last year, according to a calculation by Forbes of who gave the most money away in 2022.
In a year that saw their fortunes take a hit amid declines in the stock market,...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 25, 2023
An illegible scrawl of graffiti has now been removed from the Congregation Temple Israel monument at the entrance on Ladue Road. TI staff discovered the red spray-painted marking on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Creve Coeur Police are investigating the incident,...
Adam Kovac, The Forward
• Published January 25, 2023
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One of the United States’ most notorious white supremacists is once again on Twitter.
On Tuesday, the social media...
(JNS) Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
(JNS) The number of antisemitic incidents has been “curbed” for the first time in a decade, a report released by the Department for Combatting Antisemitism of the World Zionist Organization on Tuesday shows.
Nevertheless, there were 10 antisemitic...
