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Six13’s new Passover parody drops: Bruno Mars meets matzah

Six13’s new Passover parody drops: Bruno Mars meets matzah

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 3, 2025

It’s become a bit of a Passover tradition — just when you’re knee-deep in cleaning and planning for seder, the Jewish a cappella group Six13 drops a new parody video to lighten the mood. This year is no different. On Thursday, the group released...

Danny Cohn, Chief Executive Officer of Jewish Federation of St. Louis

Big night of giving: JFed celebrates $8.7M in impact, honors community leaders

Bill Motchan, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 3, 2025

The Jewish Federation of St. Louis celebrated its annual evening of impact on Wednesday, April 2, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum with more than 100 people in attendance. Federation reported 2024 community investments of $8.7 million,...

Covenant Place III Ribbon Cutting with Harvey and Wilma Gerstein.

Gerstein legacy lives on: Covenant Place celebrates milestone and dedicates social hall

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 2, 2025

The demand for affordable housing for older adults is constantly growing. The St. Louis Jewish community long ago recognized that need and has provided a variety of options. They include Covenant Place, which had a multi-purpose celebration on Wednesday...

Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy

Missouri’s ‘mensch on the bench’ honored with lasting tribute to his legacy

Published April 2, 2025

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri recently honored the legacy of the late Honorable Richard B. Teitelman with a special dedication ceremony. The 15th-floor conference room at Peabody Plaza was renamed in recognition of his lifelong commitment to justice...

Thanks to all of you who attended the first annual Passover Project. It was all the brainchild of my colleague Ellen Futterman, and she rocked it.

St. Louis is getting ready for a rockin’ Passover celebration

Published April 2, 2025

In less than a week, “The Passover Project: A Musical Seder” is back—bigger, better and more soulful than ever. This one-of-a-kind celebration is happening Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) at City Winery St. Louis at the Foundry...

Lana Zucker

Ladue senior honored for big heart and dedication to kids

Published April 2, 2025

Lana Zucker, a senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, was named one of South Tech’s STARs in Early Childhood Education. The STAR program allows staff and students to show their appreciation for the care, kindness and dedication of others. South...

The documentary ‘Prosecuting Evil’ looks at Ben Ferencz, a war crimes investigator and a prosecutor at the post-WWII Nuremberg trials.

St. Louis law library honors Nuremberg prosecutor who put Nazis on trial

Published April 2, 2025

As part of its monthly educational series, the Law Library Association of St. Louis, a public and membership law library located in the Civil Courts Building in downtown St. Louis, is presenting a program in April focusing on Nuremberg prosecutor Ben...

Margi Lenga Kahn’s recipe for Chraime

How Jewish families across the world celebrate Passover with unique fish dishes

By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 2, 2025

Passover, like other Jewish holidays, is steeped in tradition, especially when it comes to food. When most of us think of a traditional Passover meal, our menu would include gefilte fish, matzah ball soup, brisket and kugel. That is the classic American...

Chicago resident Peter Katz found stickers with Nazi symbolism on his Tesla last month. (Facebook)

A Chicagoan wanted to protest Elon Musk — and put a swastika sticker on a Jewish man’s Tesla

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished April 1, 2025

As he walked up to his Tesla just days after his twins’ b’nai mitzvah last month, Peter Katz was surprised to find a sticker with a swastika. Another one offered an explanation. It read “Heil Elon.” People have vandalized Tesla dealerships,...

The scarab seal from Tel Azekah. Photo by Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority.

Toddler finds 3,800-year-old amulet on family trip

JNS StaffPublished April 1, 2025

In early March, during a family trip to Tel Azekah near Beit Shemesh, three-and-a-half-year-old Ziv Nitzan from Moshav Ramot Meir stumbled upon an extraordinary piece of history—an ancient scarab amulet dating back approximately 3,800 years. The young...

Ken Dubinsky.

Mizzou athletes score big on coffee & chips—thanks to this Jewish St. Louis entrepreneur

Published April 1, 2025

Ken Dubinsky and his company, Haystack Sourcing Solutions, have partnered with Schnucks and Every True Tiger, to create Brew with the Crew premium coffee blends. Each of the six different bags features an athlete from six different University of Missouri...

A Torah is held up overlooking alongside the shoreline of a lake in Colorado where a bar mitzvah is about to begin.

This former St. Louis rabbi leads bar mitzvahs in hiking boots—and it’s transforming Jewish tradition

By JIM WINNERMAN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 1, 2025

When Rabbi Alan Shavit-Lonstein was a first-year student at Washington University in 1984, he never expected he would be a rabbi conducting bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies for a congregation of 340 families with no building, and which only practices Judaism...

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