, Feb. 14). Touting the public school education that his father and he received in Philadelphia and New York and that his children received in St. Louis, Mr. Pressman slams Jewish day schools as a "movement to isolate some of our best and brightest into...
There were 88 of us in all, coming together to celebrate our Judaism, our womanhood, and our friendships at the third annual Women's Shabbat Retreat sponsored by the Jewish Community Center. The gathering took place Feb. 9-10, after months of planning...
BY RABBI MICHAEL BERNSTEIN
• Published February 27, 2007
When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited Holocaust deniers from around the world to "re-envision history" by shedding darkness on our people's darkest hours, white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi leader David Duke spoke...
“I need a Queen, a nice new Queen To sit beside me on my throne And if she’s very nice to me I’ll give her half of all I own.”
• Published February 27, 2007
Sounds like a shady personal ad to me. Actually, this silly rhyme is a favorite Purim song among preschoolers, who parade in their gowns, crowns, and swords every year on the 14th day of Adar, and pretend to be powerful King Ahasuerus, villainous Haman,...
A growing number of Jewish communities have started to address the issue of preparedness at synagogues, Jewish day schools, Jewish camps, federations and all Jewish defense organizations because a terrorist threat to both America and the Jewish community...
The capitulation by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah faction, to Khaled Meshaal, the supreme leader of the terrorist group Hamas in their talks in Mecca, doomed to failure Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's ill-fated...
That Iran stands today able to challenge or even defy the United States in every sphere of American influence in the Middle East, attests to the dismal failure of the Bush administration's policy toward it during the last six years. Feeling emboldened...
We sat at a bonfire at the foot of Masada under the stars, discussing the existential threat to Israel from Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had made headlines again as he threatened to wipe Israel off the map and denied the Holocaust. The...
Storch, a St. Louis Democrat, has introduced three bills, including one intended to help low-income students pay for college and another that would force power companies to give their customers a price break for having to endure extended outages. The...
This week's edition of the St. Louis Jewish Light marks exactly 60 years and one day since the very first issue of the original St. Louis Light was published by what was then called the Jewish Federation's Jewish Welfare Fund, on Feb. 20, 1947. Librarians...
BY DANIELLE L. RUBIN
• Published February 14, 2007
As my St. Louis teenage peers begin thinking about how to spend their upcoming summer, I wish to share my experience from last summer and encourage others to consider participating. Although many teens spend summers at Jewish overnight camps, not many...
Last week in the Islamic holy city of Mecca, the government of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah hosted a summit meeting between Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), president of the Palestinian Authority and leader of the "mainstream" Fatah movement, and Khaled Meshaal,...
