Two St. Louis Senior Olympics volunteers love sports and plan to enter the competition, but not for another 30-plus years. Owen Whalen, 18, and Jake Goldfarb, 17, could be seen at multiple 2025 St. Louis Senior Olympics venues, clipboards in hand. Both...

Powerlifting grandmother Jaime “Jai-Jai” Goldstein now has amassed more than 250 medals and trophies, including five golds and one silver in the 2025 St. Louis Senior Olympics. Goldstein, who was profiled in the Jewish Light in 2023, has been competing...

The father-son team of Harvey and Brad Wallace captured the gold medal in the St. Louis Senior Olympics racquetball doubles competition. It represented a repeat performance in the top spot from 2024 in the men’s age 50-54 division. Harvey Wallace...

For more than 40 years, St. Louis area scouts have placed flags at Jewish veterans’ graves on Memorial Day weekend. “We have 400 scouts participating at every Jewish cemetery today,” said Steve Sobelman, who coordinated the event at Chesed Shel...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ronen Bergman is coming to St. Louis as the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation’s 2nd Annual Men’s Event on Wednesday, June 18, at The Factory in Chesterfield. Co-chaired by Jeffrey Cohen...

A solemn ceremony at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum on Sunday, May 25, marked Memorial Day 2025. Jewish War Veterans Post 644 hosted the event, which featured a presentation by Rabbi Michael Alper, senior rabbi at Congregation Temple...

If you’re of a certain age and Jewish and aren’t familiar with Judy Gold, well, sorry, but that seems wrong. For more than 40 years, this 6-foot-2 comedy force of nature has been making audiences laugh — and occasionally squirm — with her no-holds-barred...

(JNS) -- The FBI raided the Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez on Thursday, searching for clues in their investigation of the 30-year-old, who is accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington on Wednesday night, as they...

St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, were gunned...

(JTA) — At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.” Ten minutes...

It started with a name. A quiet plaque on the “Wall of Honor” at Congregation Temple Israel, tucked across from the sanctuary, honoring Alvin Yale Esrock. It was dedicated by his brother, Elmer—and it caught the eye of a staff member, curious to...