JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL If you want to assess the outcome of the Group of Eight (G8) discussions about climate change in L'Aquila, Italy last week, probably the best way to do so is to look in the mirror. If you are a skeptic about global warming and believe...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL The economy, the state of the news industry, and new media stood at the forefront of discussion at the recent American Jewish Press Association(AJPA) annual meeting in suburban Chicago. But as publishers, editors, writers and sales...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL President Barack Obama's historic speech at Cairo University sought to reach out to moderates in the Muslim and Arab worlds, and to encourage the rejection of extremism. His efforts were rewarded in the outcome of the subsequent...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Robin McKenzie is a New Zealand physical therapist who developed a widely respected program for treating back issues. In discussing one of the benchmarks of success for his method, he notes that "centralization (of pain) is the...

Moving experience at Holocaust Musuem I had a wonderful and moving experience on Sunday, May 17 at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. One of our newest survivor/speakers, Ben Fainer (who survived numerous slave labor camps, including Buchenwald,...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALIt's just all too much. Since May 16, the St. Louis Jewish community has been overwhelmed by shock and sadness over the disappearance and apparent death of community patriarch Isadore E. Millstone. Then came the additional tragic...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL There's been so much screaming from the fringes both before and after the meeting between United States President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you'd think the two nations were mortal enemies. Rightists...

NEW YORK -- What is now a crisis of economy must not become a crisis of vision. The recent economic downturn gives us a rare opportunity to rethink the way the Jewish community is organized. The extreme contraction of resources, which we believe has only...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL "Execute true justice; deal loyally and compassionately with one another. " - Zechariah 7:9 "Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere." - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk, now 89...

Hillary Clinton hasn't earned praise as Israel supporter Per your edition of April 22, 2009, your editorial states the new President is supportive of Israel, mainly due to his boycotting of the racist Durban II Conference. I applaud him for that; he is...

Yom HaShoah On Behalf of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, I wanted to clarify several issues raised in two letters printed in the April 29 edition of the Jewish Light. The annual Yom HaShoah commemoration is open to the entire Jewish...

That's what Yogi Berra would probably ask about the recent words of Hamas' leader.We have been hearing for some months that there is a new "moderation" among such groups as Hamas, Hezbollah and even the Taliban, despite the fact that none of these jihadist...