A version of this story first appeared on Chabad.org/News. The dumping of crawfish at a Jewish fraternity house at UC Berkeley last month caused Jewish students to feel targeted, but it ultimately also created an opportunity to educate the community...

Charlotte Goldstein, daughter of Jamie and Adam Goldstein of St. Louis, became a bat mitzvah in May 2023 at United Hebrew Congregation.  Charlotte is the granddaughter of Terri Garland, Susan Fiman, Paul Goldstein and the late Kristen Goldstein, all...

Levy Fellows, a cohort for board leaders of Jewish organizations in the St. Louis region, is now accepting applications for programs to take place in October and November. The program is sponsored by Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Millstone Leadership...

Long ago, my friend Michael Kovner, today a distinguished Israeli painter, lamented that the artist as an archetype is foreign to Jewish culture and tradition. Bezalel, the biblical figure chosen as the architect of the mishkan, the transportable wilderness...

I remember the first time I was ever sent to the principal's office.  It happened during Sunday school at Congregation Temple Israel in the late 1970s. The lesson that Sunday was the story of Jonah. Long story short, Jonah disobeys G-d, hops a ship,...

I just returned from watching my grandson play lacrosse. Lacrosse is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. Indigenous describes any group of people native...

They are everywhere you look. Ken and Barbie, the most glamorous stars of the summer, are ready to make their big screen debuts in a buzzy live-action film to be released July 21st. The film has sparked renewed interest in the pop culture icons including...