Recent media reports of violent attacks against Christian communities in India and Iraq are extremely alarming, and it is puzzling that the international community, which is so quick to pounce on any and all allegations that Israel is mistreating the...

Israeli Prime Minister-Designate Tzipi Livni lived up to her impressive credentials in her first national policy address since being tapped by the Kadima Party to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who resigned amid ongoing investigations for...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL At long last, poverty is on the front burner. Last week's Forum on Poverty, sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis' Community Against Poverty (CAP) Initiative, shone a vital light on the topic. The keynote...

The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) supports Proposition C, the Clean Energy Initiative, and hopes that you will too at the polls on Nov. 4th. Proposition C will amend Missouri law to require investor-owned utilities to gradually generate or...

Religious leaders around the country have found some common ground for protest. Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders in St. Louis, New York, Washington, D.C. and other major cities gathered last week for a series of protest rallies against Iranian President...

As American Jews we pride ourselves on the similarity of American ideals and Jewish values. We have worked together, and we have sometimes faced danger together. This certainly is such a time. For we face an enemy who promises to eliminate those he hates...

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL Another Jewish New Year -- 5769 -- is about to begin. Once again, our High Holidays can rightly be called "The Days of Awe" because of the many challenges and hopes confronting us as Americans and as Jews. Indeed, recent events...

I'd like to give you my opinion of Jerry Springer. I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Springer on a few occasions as he is a very good friend of my wife's Aunt and Uncle. I have talked with him one onone. The person I have met is a kind, articulate,...

I'm generally pretty good with directions, but I wouldn't think of driving in New York in our high-tech times without a GPS. How our ancestors did it in yesteryear is to their credit --and to my imagination -- but not me; I choose to rely on the GPS....

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has accomplished something no other chief diplomat has. Last week, she became the first top-ranking U.S. official in 50 years to visit the Libyan capital of Tripoli in what she called a "historic visit" that was supposed...

Just in case you were wondering, the Jewish Light has a huge circulation. And, it's reliable -- I'm as certain to see it i my mailbox once a week as I am to hear from my grandmother five minutes later when she sees my byline. Over the course of my internship...

Political advertisements draw fire from readers I wonder if anyone else is offended and saddened by the ads in the Jewish Light from the Republican Jewish Coalition, which try to smear Senator Barach Obama. Using quotes out of context, they try to convince...