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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

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In a New Light

Jewish Light EditorialPublished April 20, 2017

One of the hardest tasks that any publication has when it begins a redesign is trying to figure out the best way to combine the most popular qualities of the old format with the new look and feel it wants to present. That’s been the case with every...

After the Tomahawks Fly

Jewish Light EditorialPublished April 10, 2017

President Donald Trump was fully justified in ordering an attack on a Syrian air base that was used to drop deadly sarin gas on innocent men, women and children. We hope that the president will build upon this widely acclaimed action to forge a truly...

Mixed signals from the Middle East

Jewish Light EditorialPublished April 5, 2017

In the midst of all of the back and forth among the White House, mainstream media and Congress — alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections, the pending vote on Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court and a host of other issues —...

Terrorism and Temptation

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 29, 2017

Within hours of one another, two news events with apparent connections to terrorism created headlines last week. They brought with them the temptation to immediately place blame and responsibility for the too-frequent disruptions of our daily lives, but...

Of bombers and bake sales

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 22, 2017

Remember that old bumper sticker that said:“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”If Congress passes the federal budget proposed by the White House last week,...

Hail Haley

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 22, 2017

Clearly, the United States has installed a new sheriff at its mission to the United Nations: Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina.Not since Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose in 1975 to denounce the infamous General Assembly...

A Bad, Divisive Strategy

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 15, 2017

The Israeli Knesset last Monday quietly passed an ill-conceived bill that is inconsistent with the democratic values of the Jewish State.The legislation bars entry into Israel by persons who have publicly supported the boycotts, divestments and sanctions...

State of Confusion

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 8, 2017

Almost lost in the whirlwind of news regarding cemetery desecrations and the arrest in St. Louis of a suspect in some of the bomb threats at Jewish community centers is the fact that last month, President Donald Trump held his first face-to-face talks...

Estimates of up to 2,500 people gathered at Chesed Shel Emeth on Feb. 22 to help in a cleanup effort at the cemetery. Here the group listens to remarks by Gov. Eric Greitens, who put out a call on social media for volunteers to join him in a show of community support after 154 headstones were overturned or broken at the cemetery. Photo: James Griesedieck

Standing Tall

Jewish Light EditorialPublished March 1, 2017

In physics, Isaac Newton told us, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That observation certainly applies to the inspirational response to last week’s horrible desecration of the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City.As...

A row of toppled headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery on Monday evening. Photo: Eric Berger

Vicious Vandals

Jewish Light EditorialPublished February 22, 2017

Never in recent memory has there been such community wide and even international revulsion over an incident like the savage desecration of the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. Even though it was not immediately clear whether the attack was anti-Semitism...

The DeVos Curriculum

Jewish Light EditorialPublished February 15, 2017

Remember how in high school you squeaked by on the final exam in Latin or trigonometry but you felt that it really didn’t matter because you weren’t going to use any of that stuff in your real life anyway?That’s kind of how Betsy DeVos won confirmation...

Playing With Fire

Jewish Light EditorialPublished February 8, 2017

For anyone trying to evaluate President Donald Trump’s dizzying changes in U.S. foreign policy, it’s hard to separate the tweets from the chaff.Depending upon where one stands on the evolving Trump presidency, he is either deliberately attempting...

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