Shmuel Goodman didn’t come to St. Louis to talk theory—he came to tell the truth. About going broke. About beating cancer. About rebuilding a life with purpose, faith and accountability. As the featured guest of Ignite YP’s Staenberg Speaker Series,...

The Jewish population of the St. Louis metropolitan area is now estimated at approximately 45,800, according to the 2024 Greater St. Louis Jewish Community Study, set to be released today, March 24. The study, conducted by the Cohen Center for Modern...

Bruce Pearl, whose Auburn men’s basketball team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen this weekend, opened his postgame press conference by calling to “bring the hostages home.” Auburn is one of three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball...

On Monday, March 24, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research celebrates 100 years of preserving Jewish history, language and culture. And if you’re sitting in St. Louis thinking, "That’s nice, but what does a New York-based archive have to do with me?,"...

Lucy Greenbaum, director of music engagement at Congregation Shaare Emeth, has been accepted to Hebrew Union College’s Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music as a cantorial student. Beginning this summer, she will embark on a five-year program that...

You already know Lefty’s Bagels for their New York-style bagels, but here’s something else to love about them—they’re making sure those bagels do more than just fill stomachs. In 2024 alone, Lefty’s donated more than 41,000 bagels to the...

There have been many powerful films about the Holocaust, so if one opts to create a new one, one must “bring something new to the conversation,” according to the Israeli-American director Lior Geller. Geller told JNS that the new film “The World...

For five days in February, nearly 3,500 Jewish teens from 50 countries packed into Denver for the BBYO International Convention (IC), the largest annual gathering of Jewish teen leaders. Among them, 28 teens from St. Louis represented their community,...

My inbox is always interesting. The other day, I heard from a former St. Louisan named Vic Weisskopf, a veteran who now lives in Chicago but is wisely wintering down in Phoenix, presumably avoiding whatever Midwest weather we're dealing with this week....

(JTA) — The tale sounded almost too heartwarming to be true: A kosher bagel store, just down the road from a few synagogues, was owned by an Arab American who had grown to be beloved by the local Jewish community. For decades, that was the story...

Karen Sher was promoted to chief impact officer of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. She leads efforts to maximize community resource impact and builds relationships with partners in Israel, enhancing Missouri’s international ties. Most recently,...

Charles Lindbergh may have been the “Pride of St. Louis,” but his legacy is complicated. Last year, the St. Louis Jewish Light published a groundbreaking article about this very disturbing point: Lindbergh was an international celebrity with a loud...