President Donald Trump’s temperate remarks from the White House last week in response to the “revenge firing” of long range missiles into a large air base in Iraq hosting U.S. forcesshould be reassuring to Americans on all points of the political...

Gov. Mike Parson deserves warm praise for his bold and principled decision to formally declare that Missouri will join 30 other states to accept refugees from war-torn countries.Parson made the announcement in a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...

Few rabbis in the history of the Jewish religion have had the far-reaching influence and lasting spiritual leadership as that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. Some 25 years after his death, the movement continues to...

Now that the House has voted to make Donald Trump just the third American president to face an impeachment trial in the Senate, everyone involved needs to make sure the process is fair, comprehensive and dignified.It won’t be easy.Sadly, if events leading...

Voters in the United Kingdom decisively repudiated the radical leftist Labour Party of Jeremy Corbyn and gave the Conservative Party of pro-Brexit Boris Johnson a solid majority in Parliament. Returns from last Thursday’s election indicate that Johnson’s...

The cold-blooded attack took six lives, including two Hasidic Jews, a police officer and the two alleged attackers. The suspects were identified as current or former members of a radical fringe group called the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been...

With Hanukkah and Christmas overlapping this year, the annual concern that has come to be known as the December Dilemma takes on added timeliness. Navigating through a cluster of joyous religious holidays without prompting hurt feelings, charges of discrimination...

In moving to change the name of Beirne Park to the H. Philip Venable Memorial Park, Creve Coeur is taking a long overdue step to erase a blatantly racist stain on that city’s history.As reported by Jewish Light Associate Editor Eric Berger, the new...

Three strikes and you’re out may work in baseball, but not in the hardball of Israeli politics. Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu has already served a record number of years as leader of Israel’s fractious government and the conservative...

The Sh’ma prayer, the eternal watchword of the Jewish faith, commands us to hear, to listen.  But recent public discussions about how American Jews should relate to the State of Israel have ignored that plea, devolving from legitimate passion into...

After an exhaustive search, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis has named Brian Herstig to be the next president and CEO of the community-wide philanthropic organization. Herstig is a solid choice to lead the Federation in a time of concerns and challenges...

The always tumultuous Middle East is on overdrive, with several major crises exploding at the same time. The instability on several fronts can be grouped underthe heading of the Four I’s: ISIS, Iraq, Iran and Israel.Consider these recent developments...