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Never say 'never' to lessening your guilt

Never say ‘never’ to lessening your guilt

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANEPublished December 6, 2022

A year ago, we spent New Year's Eve together and with a few others. Before the clock struck Midnight, we decided as a group not to share our resolutions since we often break the vows, setting ourselves up for failure. We adhere to the atavistic adage:...

St. Louis region to get lit up for Hanukkah

St. Louis region to get lit up for Hanukkah

Published December 6, 2022

When it comes to celebrating Hanukkah, Chabad in the St. Louis area likes to go big, as in really big. Among noteworthy events, there will be a menorah lighting near the Arch and on Historic Main Street in St. Charles, just a stone’s throw away...

Even as lethal injection drugs are hard to obtain, states like Missouri keep killing

Even as lethal injection drugs are hard to obtain, states like Missouri keep killing

By Kathy Gilsinan, River City Journalism FundPublished December 6, 2022

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. When Missouri executioners injected Kevin Johnson with a lethal dose of pentobarbital...

Amber McLaughlin was found guilty of murdering an ex-girlfriend. | COURTESY OF JESSICA HICKLIN

This is the next person to be executed in Missouri

By Ryan Krull, The River City Journalism FundPublished December 6, 2022

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. On November 20, 2003, 45-year-old Beverly Guenther was abducted outside the office where...

Why people ghost on social media and what to do if it happens to you

Why people ghost on social media and what to do if it happens to you

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special For The Jewish LightPublished November 29, 2022

It happens to most of us and can be a gut-punch. You have a strong relationship with someone and suddenly they disappear. Poof. It's called ghosting and occurs when a person stops communicating with another without warning. They disappear into thin...

Secrets to eating out that won't take too big a bite of your budget

Secrets to eating out that won’t take too big a bite of your budget

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special To The Jewish LightPublished November 22, 2022

It's almost the start of the big holiday whirl. We're busy shopping and spending money on gifts, gathering with friends and relatives at home and out and about to toast our togetherness. We feel we're hemorrhaging money while spending almost $4 a gallon...

All-white juries continue to sentence Black defendants to death — because the legal system allows it

Sarah Fenske, River City Journalism FundPublished November 22, 2022

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. No less than the great defense attorney Clarence Darrow believed that more than lawyers’...

Could DNA analysis exonerate death-row inmate Marcellus Williams

Sylvester Brown, Jr., River City Journalism FundPublished November 22, 2022

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. The Gospel of John tells of Jesus chastising a crowd intent on stoning a woman to death....

Kadimah students are “All In” at overnight bonding event

Kadimah students are “All In” at overnight bonding event

Published November 16, 2022

Students at Yeshivat Kadimah High School (known as Kadimah) took a bus on Sunday, Aug. 28 to Godfrey, Ill. for the school’s very first “all in” overnight event.  This was a fantastic way for students to bond and a great start to the upcoming school...

How to find an alternative job @ 70+

How to find an alternative job @ 70+

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special For The Jewish LightPublished November 15, 2022

At some point we each have thought, we wish we were richer. Maybe, have another income stream as prices continue to rise, especially if our writing dries up. Our co-mingled anxiety has led us to wonder how easy or hard it would be to retrain ourselves...

Cody Rush

Cody Rush sentenced to 30 months in prison for threatening to blow up a CRC

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished November 9, 2022

The man who just over a year ago threatened to blow up the Central Reform Congregation (CRC) has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. The sentence was handed down Tuesday, by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey for Cody Steven Rush, 30, who pleaded...

Be a good host: It's the menschy thing to do

Be a good host: It’s the menschy thing to do

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special To The Jewish LightPublished November 8, 2022

Friends and family are starting to plan for the Thanksgiving holiday-making their shopping lists, finetuning who will be invited, thinking about polishing the silverware and readying the air mattresses for extras who will sleep over. Are you the host...

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