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St. Louis Jewish leaders condemn antisemitic social media posts

St. Louis Jewish leaders condemn antisemitic social media posts

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 12, 2024

In the aftermath of Cori Bush's primary loss last Tuesday, tensions surrounding the St. Louis political landscape have intensified, especially concerning issues of antisemitism. Last week, the ADL Heartland office reacted on social media to a post...

Tickets to see 'The Artist Who Captured Eichmann' in St. Louis go on sale today

Tickets to see ‘The Artist Who Captured Eichmann’ in St. Louis go on sale today

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished August 12, 2024

Tickets to see the highly anticipated special exhibition "The Artist Who Captured Eichmann" at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum are on sale starting today on the museum's website. This unique exhibition opens on Sept. 19 and offers a rare...

Timothée Chalamet

Timothée Chalamet to star as Jewish table-tennis star Marty Reisman

JNS StaffPublished July 25, 2024

Timothée Chalamet, the 28-year-old star of the epic sci-fi “Dune” series, is taking a more down-to-earth role in a new movie based on the life of Marty Reisman, a Jewish table tennis champion. “Marty Supreme” will feature Chalamet, who is Jewish...

Rachel Hensold

Promotion in order for Crown Center’s Rachel Hensold

Published July 10, 2024

Rachel Hensold was promoted to client services director at Crown Center, overseeing all of Crown’s nutrition operations, including its meals on wheels program. Hensold will manage agency resources to provide residents and community clients with direct...

Published July 1, 2024

Today's Headlines Popular "Held" Podcast takes center stage at Nishmah Women’s Retreat A first Look at St. Louis’ coolest Jewish festival this fall The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck Nearly half of Americans see antisemitism as...

Tour de France 2024 - 111th Edition - 2nd stage Cesenatico - Bologna 199,2 km - 30/06/2024 - Hugo Houle (CAN - Israel - Premier Tech) - photo Luca Bettini/SprintCyclingAgency©2024

Hugo Houle takes his chances in the breakaway

Published June 30, 2024

Hugo Houle showed off the IPT colors nicely on stage 2 of the Tour de France as he made it into the winning breakaway, ultimately finishing in ninth place on the day. “I was happy to get in the break today. It’s a good start and hopefully,...

Children dancing at Kibbutz Ginegar, 1947. (Kluger Zoltan/Israel GPO)

Why ‘Hava Nagila’ is TV’s new fight song

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished June 17, 2024

“Hava Nagila” is the typical soundtrack to Jewish weddings and b’nai mitzvah — and, these days, brutal hand-to-hand fighting with naked combatants. Two streaming shows have recently picked up where Guy Ritchie, who used the folk song...

A Rabbi, a Nun, and the ensuring a Jewish Burial

A Rabbi, a Nun, and the ensuring a Jewish Burial

By Rabbi Ze’ev SmasonPublished May 22, 2024

Fourteen years ago, I received an unusual phone call. The call was from a nun. Sister Mary called to tell me that Dale, a Jewish man who was a student of mine, had suddenly passed away at the age of 45.  She asked if I could assist her in raising enough...

Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg

WashU to honor Kranzbergs

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 10, 2024

It’s sure to be a special commencement ceremony for St. Louis philanthropists and arts patrons Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg. This Monday morning, May 13, the couple will don caps and gowns as they receive honorary doctorates from Washington University...

Missouri lawmakers move forward with measures expressing solidarity with Israel

Missouri lawmakers move forward with measures expressing solidarity with Israel

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 8, 2024

Two resolutions supporting Israel advanced in the Missouri legislature this week. House Continuing Resolution 30 passed in the House of Representatives on May 6 by a vote of 108 to 8. Another 22 house members voted “present.” The resolution, known...

A tribute to Jerri Livingston

A tribute to Jerri Livingston

MARSHA SCHUMAN, Special To The Jewish LightPublished April 18, 2024

My dear friend Jerri Livingston died peacefully in her sleep at home on April 3 at the age of 72. She and I had a been entwined in one another’s lives for 59 years. Once, when I asked Jerri what mattered to her, she said, “Family and Judaism were...

Discover everything the Kranzberg Foundation has to offer, from an ‘insider’

BY NANCY KRANZBERGPublished April 18, 2024

While the Kranzberg Arts Foundation (KAF) has programs for all the art disciplines, I’d like to focus on the visual and literary arts. We have four art galleries as well as the outdoor “Walls Off Washington,” which feature over 25 thought provoking...

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