JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Beneath the radar screen, amidst the horrific news coming out of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where suicide bombers have struck with unprecedented fury, JTA reported that President Barack Obama commemorated the 15th anniversary...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL If you visited a doctor's or dentist's office anytime from the late 1940s on, chances are at one time or another you read the classic comic "Goofus and Gallant" in Highlights for Children magazine. The strip features two youngsters...

Last weekend I was asked to give a D'var Torah by the kind members of Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel congregation. The parshah was Noach, and I was asked to talk about the relationship of this portion to modern environmentalism. The basic thrust of the D'var...

Inclusiveness and activism are needed at congregations I read with interest a commentary on how to recruit new young members to the St. Louis Jewish community by a well known Rabbi in this community (Toward Thriving, Oct. 14 Light). What is missing from...

Recent stories in The New York Times and The New York Jewish Week about alleged child molestation and attempts to use rabbinical courts to block investigations or even cover up crimes are, to say the least, extremely disturbing. The sexual and physical...

Saint Louis University rejects David Horowitz as a speaker. Schnucks' new downtown store allows a manager to display a crucifix in a visible area. And the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod agrees to sell KFUO to a company that owns Christian music stations,...

Planning for the future is risky business. Barry Rosenberg's paper on the future of the Jewish community in St. Louis is therefore an act of courage. Someone needs to take the first step, and who better, than the person who provides the professional leadership...

I remember exactly what I was doing: watching television, quietly weeping. There, in brilliant September sunlight outside the White House in 1993, I saw Israel's Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat extend their right arms in...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL The moral repugnance exhibited by the characters in Steven Soderbergh's stunning indie film sex, lies and videotape is reflected in recent events affecting Israel. The baseless charges that Israel is guilty of war crimes and the...

In the lewdly satiric film Team America, North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il and U.N. inspector Hans Blix have this fictional dialogue about weapons of mass destruction: Blix: I'm sorry, but the U.N. must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace...

Podhoretz editorial I believe that Norman Podhoretz was right 30 years ago and is right today as regards Israel. The entire Western world's attacks on Israel and its very right to exist as an independent nation are led by and consist of the left and liberal...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL We all should be alarmed over recent events involving the theocratic regime in Iran, where things have gone from bad to worse since the rigged June "re-election" of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The potential of a possible new...