In the beginning of the Torah, when God first makes a covenant with our forefathers and sets out the mission of our people, God tells each of them that their children will live in their land, the land of Israel, and there they should be a blessing to...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL A comical image on an Internet website is accompanied by the caption, "There's a New Sheriff in Town." The illustration is a photograph of a dove-like bird holding a radar gun pointed at passing-by traffic. The photo frames a fascinating...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Media coverage of the Gaza crisis features constant, lurid images of death and destruction. Photos and video tell part of the story, but television and print media present this so-called "breaking news" with precious little, if...

As I write this commentary, Israeli ground forces have just entered Gaza. To many of us, this conflict is reminiscent of Israel's incursion into Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Once again, the world is watching as Israel attempts to destroy terrorists...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Let's say you live in St. Louis County, and over the past several years, over 5,000 rockets have rained into your neighborhood and others from St. Charles County, just across the river. The rockets come from a variety of locations...

The recent release of the sci-fi remake The Day The Earth Stood Still gave me pause to wonder: How would visiting aliens perceive Earthlings circa 2008? Given the outrageous cultural contrasts of this year, we must appear as a yo-yo to outsiders looking...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Two weeks ago, the St. Louis Jewish Light was proud to publish an exclusive and gripping first-person account, "Visiting Sderot under fire," by Rachel Schwartz, an Israeli citizen and Assistant Professor with Saint Louis University's...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Juxtaposed against the tranquility of our nation's celebration of Thanksgiving were the brutal terrorist attacks in Mumbai, killing and injuring hundreds in multiple locations. Among those slain were the directors of Chabad of Mumbai,...

The night of the electipn, Democrats took to the streets of St. Louis to celebrate a historic victory. On Delmar in The Loop, jubilant supporters honked their horns and partied in the street, stopping cars to scream and wave signs, much in the way St....

On Nov. 4, while the U.S. broke through a major historical barrier by electing an African-American president, we further codified discrimination against individuals and families who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. Proposition 8 banned same-sex...

Last week, the incumbent in the Missouri Lieutenant Governor race, Peter Kinder, appeared in a video online to address his opponent Sam Page's assertions about Kinder's record. One of Page's assertions was that Kinder had taken money from a developer...

U.S military helicopters last Sunday launched a rare attack on Syrian territory close to Iraq, killing eight people in a strike condemned officially by Damascus as "serious aggression," according to an Associated Press report, which was confirmed by a...