The Jewish Light has partnered with the J - St. Louis to celebrate Father's Day with our first annual TV and Movie Jewish Dad Bracket! How well do you know your Jewish TV/Movie Dad’s? Fill out the online Father’s Day Bracket to vote for an opportunity...

This commentary originally appeared on The Foward In the time it took to upload a video, Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street one year ago today became the most recognizable, and infamous, street corner on the planet. Now, closed to traffic for two...

Eleanor Lois Heiligman, 77, passed away peacefully on Mother’s Day, May 9th, 2021. Eleanor was born on November 9th to Isador and Esther Poe in St. Louis, MO.   After graduating from University City high school, she went on to major in Spanish...

Jewish day school students, like these at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County bearing signs with the Hebrew word for love, are increasingly pushing their schools to explore how they can foster greater diversity, equity and inclusion both...

28th February 1973: Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins attends the SF&TV (Society of Film and Television Arts, later the BAFTA) awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He recently portrayed Count Pierre Bezuhov in the British television production of...

St. Louis artist Tsila Schwartz takes part in the first the Sababa Jewish Arts & Culture Festival in 2018. The festival, planned by Jewish Federation of St. Louis and the Jewish Community Center, is seeking artists for the 2021 festival, which is...

As shown by the wreckage of an Egged bus blown up Dec. 2, 2001, the blast April 10, 2002, was not the first suicide bombing on a bus in Haifa during the Second Intifada. The December 2001 bombing killed 15 passengers; the April 2002 attack killed eight...

Prisoners play ‘The Tango of Death’ during the execution of Soviet citizens at the Janowska concentration camp in Ukraine. AFP via Getty Images

The family of Irina Khoroshunova from Kiev, caught in the web of the Nazis’ “Operation Barbarossa,” an organized rout of the Jewish communities in Soviet-controlled countries beginning in the summer of 1941. Credit: Yad Vashem.

Six of the Bernstein siblings taken in Ylakiai, Lithuania, February 1933. Top row, from left: Arye-Leib, Ida and Benzion; bottom row, from left: Rivka, Menachem and Hinda. They were all murdered in the Holocaust except for Ida, who immigrated to Eretz...

Andrea Lubershane and her ‘Fiddler’ mezuzah.  Above, the outside of the scroll inside a  mezuzah’s case. Photo: Bill Motchan

A plaque outside Jerusalem’s Haji Adoniyah Synagogue, created by Jadid al-Islam (“new to Islam”) from Mashhad in 1902, reads, “The synagogue of Haji Adoniayahu, son of Aharon HaCohen of the Crypto-Jews of Mashhad, dedicated by the Aharon Cohen...