A live audience was on hand Thursday evening, Feb. 13 for the St. Louis homecoming of Danny Jacobs and Darren Grodsky. The twosome brought their popular podcast “"How To Destroy Everything," to STL Style House for a special edition, which will form...

The New Jewish Theatre received an impressive 19 nominations for the 2025 St Louis Theater Circle Awards, including eight for its production of “All My Sons.” This achievement includes at least one nomination for every show in NJT’s 2024 season....

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance met with Abba Naor, a Holocaust survivor, and with Karl Freller, the director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation, and other officials at Dachau, the site of a former concentration camp in Germany,...

(JTA) — Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service. But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic...

Four of Israel’s most distinguished scientists—including three Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry and the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities—dispatched an urgent letter on Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump, sounding...

What, if anything, connects Valentine’s Day to Judaism? On the surface, probably very little, as the holiday’s origins trace back to ancient Roman customs and Christian traditions (not to mention Hallmark and Russell Stover). However, when you...

A majority of American Jews report changing their behavior out of fear of antisemitism, according to an annual American Jewish Committee report documenting antisemitism in America published Wednesday. Some 56% of American Jews say they have avoided certain...

I first discovered "Saturday Night Live" the way a lot of kids did—through an older, slightly cooler classmate. It must have been in 1978 or 1979. Richard Shaw was the biggest kid at Spoede School -- not just in height but in presence. Every Monday...

Dozens of Jewish celebrities and artists, as well as hundreds of rabbis, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times Thursday to object to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The ad is a response to President Donald Trump’s calls to permanently relocate...

As the conflict in Gaza continues to shape headlines and political discourse, Congregation B’nai Amoona is providing a space for critical discussion on the region’s future. The event, titled “What’s Next for Gaza,” will take place on Feb. 27...

A week in Israel gave a group of St. Louis Jewish leaders a firsthand look at resilience, grief and the deep connections that sustain communities in crisis. Members of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Israel & Overseas Committee recently returned...