JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL For the past several weeks, the St. Louis Jewish Light has published numerous news stories, opinion pieces and letters to the editor regarding the ongoing controversy over the Agriprocessors, the Rubashkin Kosher Meat and Poultry...

Crimes against humanity Thank you for the Aug. 20 editorial on "Crimes against Humanity." I totally agree with your conclusion that the international community should see to it that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is arrested and extradicted to the International...

The great Jewish historian Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the events leading up to the First World War has a most enduring and timely title in view of current events: The Guns of August. Once again in the so-called "dog days" of August,...

I was deeply disturbed by the opinion piece from Rabbi Zvi Zuravin in the Aug. 13 Light. This article should have been identified as an advertisement for Agriprocessors. If the news article in the same edition of the Light is correct, the Rabbi's trip...

Has it ever happened to you that someone you barely knew started telling you "what's wrong" with -- your brother, your mother, or your son? What was your first reaction? Did you congratulate the busybody on his insight and add in some criticisms of your...

This year the world celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Jewish State. Most would agree that the Israel of today looks quite a bit different than the homeland of 1948. Forty years from now, the world and our St. Louis Jewish Community will celebrate...

When the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. was dedicated in 1993, hundreds of attendees, including several heads of governments solemnly vowed that "Never Again" would the world stand idly by while another genocide took place....

Regarding the recent raid and allegations against AgriProcessors in Postville, Iowa,(Jewish Light Aug. 6, 2008, "Fallout Continues From Postville Raid"), Rabbi Hyim Shafner is quoted as saying, "They made kosher meat affordable in a way that it never...

During my week in El Salvador with the Takkana Social Justice Fellowship and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), I was constantly plagued by the knowledge that my life was changing as every moment passed. Through the generosity of individual donors,...

AN ATTACK ON IRAN IS NEEDED I wholeheartedly concur with those who predict that Israel will launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities by the end of this year, and truth be told, I overwhelmingly endorse such an attack. The fate and...

For weeks now the controversy about Agriprocessors, the kosher meat and poultry plant in Postville, Iowa, has been in the media. Questions abound regarding the treatment of workers, the presence of foreign workers with falsified documents, etc. All of...

News reports from The New York Times, the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency), the Associated Press and other sources detail the fact that Israel has allowed entry to scores of Palestinians fleeing a Hamas factional crackdown in the Gaza Strip. Apparently...