You know how little kids ask their parents "why" all the time? Everything is a question. Why is the sky blue? Why do I sleep with my eyes closed? Why is your name Mommy? When we give them an answer, they usually follow up with another "why" all over again....

I know it's a cliché, but I really did have the adventure of a lifetime. I was one of 77 participants who traveled to Israel and Poland on the March of the Living's Birthright trip. We went to Poland for five days, where we visited several death camps,...

Once again, in perhaps the most universally celebrated Jewish family festival, Jews the world over will soon gather for festive seders, celebrating the redemption of the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery in 1250 BCE. And once again, as has been the...

As a Midwestern Reform Jew born during the era of assimilation and Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman, I viewed "parochial" schools as objectionable and never, no, never, thought that there would ever be Jewish "parochial" schools. Wrong, not just a little but...

It's been a rough four weeks for Gov. Matt Blunt. The losing streak began in late February with the sexual harassment scandal involving the state's director of agriculture. It gained momentum when the House rejected Blunt's proposal to hand out tax credits...

Imagine if we were to learn today that all the great American universities had been destroyed. Now imagine that it has fallen upon the Jewish community of greater St. Louis to replace that vast culture of learning, that vast lost resource of libraries...

I deeply appreciate the coverage that the Jewish Light gives to important Jewish institutions, such as the Jewish Day Schools, in St. Louis. I wish to clarify what was reported in the Jan. 17 Jewish Light. There is no mention of the term "patrilineal...

Once again, a group of self-styled neo-Nazi white supremacists took advantage of the very First Amendment rights they would deny to others to obtain a legal permit for a "march and rally" in Columbia, Mo., near the University of Missouri-Columbia campus....

I deeply appreciate the coverage that the Jewish Light gives to important Jewish institutions, such as the Jewish Day Schools, in St. Louis. I wish to clarify what was reported in the Jan. 17 Jewish Light. There is no mention of the term "patrilineal...

Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, 80 miles south of Kiev. Korsun, annexed by the Tsar from Poland in 1793, was fairly typical of other shtetls in what was known as the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe. It...

NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- March 4 marked the 20th anniversary of the unprecedented life sentence meted out to Jonathan Pollard. The date is a most appropriate moment to take stock of the response of the American Jewish community and the government of Israel...

At Washington University last week, a simple and stark message was written in large black letters on white paper plates posted on university bulletin boards on the campus: City of St. Louis Population: 350,000; Number Killed in Darfur: 400,000. These...