In his first major public comments about Israel since early in the Gaza war, the Jewish actor Ben Platt said his Jewish identity is not defined by Israel. Platt also voiced support for another Jewish actor, Hannah Einbinder, who has drawn criticism...

TEL AVIV — On the morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Reut Karp was staying with a friend outside Tel Aviv when she was awakened by sirens. It was Simchat Torah, and she was about two hours from home at Kibbutz Re’im, a close-knit community of 435 residents...

JProStL, the professional association supporting staff across more than 50 Jewish organizations in St. Louis, has announced its new leadership for 2025–2026—and the incoming board president is no stranger to storytelling. Rebekah Scallet, artistic...

When Ayala Hendin arrived in St. Louis in the summer of 2022, she wasn’t just beginning a new academic chapter. She was coming home—sort of. Her parents had made aliyah in 1975, after her father was one of the first volunteers from St. Louis to fly...

Elections for the American representatives of the World Zionist Congress continue through May 4 with major ramifications for the allocation of more than $1 billion of funding for Israel and world Jewry, in addition to shaping Zionist institutions for...

(JTA) — Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the second day of Passover to a scourge of red paint across several university buildings with messages including “death to Israel” and “intifada now.” In a message to the Hillel...

A year ago, Sarah Resnick had a good job and a Jewish community she liked in New York. She gave all that up to move to Winnipeg, a city where she knew nobody, in a country where she was not a citizen, in a climate whose extremes she was not used to. “Do...

There is just something about seeing antique cars inside the St. Louis Art Museum that makes you feel like you're seeing something extra special. The new exhibit, “Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918–1939,” features 12 of them,...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Just hours after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family began Passover with a Seder in his official residence,...

Since joining the Jewish Light I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up and part of that was the Yiddish my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents whom I affectionately named Mama (bubbe) and Baba. Both would use...

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum has launched an emergency fundraising campaign to save its Holocaust survivor stories after losing over $130,000 in federal support. The cut jeopardizes efforts to finish digitizing and sharing more than 300...

There are stories that live in history books and then there are stories that survive because someone was there to tell them. On April 27, St. Louis will gather at Congregation Temple Israel for its annual Yom HaShoah commemoration, focusing...