Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 10, 2022
After you finish Juilliard with your master’s in 2023, what is your next goal?
In the near future, I will start taking orchestra auditions wherever there are seats that are open. If it’s the St. Louis Symphony, that’s my dream to start there.
You...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 5, 2022
"Throughout the centuries Jews have used humor to cope with their history of trauma and stress. In fact, they have been sharpening their wits for over two thousand years and have always used jokes and humorous characterizations as teaching aids and as...
Harley Hammerman, Special For the St. Louis Jewish Light
• Published January 2, 2022
There is an amazing website called Lost Tables, dedicated to celebrating the restaurants of our past. We are partnering with the site’s creator Harley Hammerman and celebrating these wonderful stories. Hammerman and his wife Marlene are members of Shaare...
Ellen Futterman and Jordan Palmer, St. Louis Jewish Light
• Published January 2, 2022
Heading into 2021, many of us felt certain that it would be an easier year than the one we were leaving behind – the one that introduced us to the coronavirus and its various variant cousins. But here it is, another new year, and COVID, unfortunately,...
Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Central Reform Congregation
• Published December 21, 2021
Before Exodus 2:24-25 (G-d heard their cry. . .and G-d saw"), there is little mention of G-d in the first few chapters of the Book of Exodus. G-d was not personally involved (hashgacha pratit in Hebrew) with Israel, as it were, but allowed events to...
Yiddish has style.
The style comes not just from the incredibly humorous sounding words, but from the literal way our great-great-grandparents, great-grandparents, and grandparents sounded when they said the words. We're referring to their voices and...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 16, 2021
When is it OK to mislead, deceive or outright lie? What causes hate? How should a person deal with a friend or relative who dismisses COVID-19 protection?
A weekly podcast tackles these weighty questions — and some lighter ones. “The Rabbi and the...
Jews have been at the forefront of American comedy since its inception. Folks like Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Mike Nichols and Elaine May helped to grow theatrical improvisation — or improv comedy — into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. But,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 7, 2021
Dear Jewish Light Readers,
"Where did your donation page go?" was the subject line of a few emails and some curious calls, as many of you, and your kind hearts were looking to donate the St. Louis Jewish Light, but could not.
We now know why.
Apparently,...
The picture shows a father and a son, laying on grass, in love and content. It’s a close-up. The father has that scruffy Brooklyn look; he is in profile, nose-to-nose to his 2-year-old son. The father is peering intently at the little boy, a grin...
(Dr. Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust.)
Maybe he didn’t mean it the way it sounded, but a U.S. Congressman this week insinuated...
