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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

War In Israel

Rep. Elise Stefanik testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump ally targets Truman scholar for being ‘pro-Hamas’

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 30, 2025

(JTA) — A Trump-aligned congresswoman is calling on a federally funded scholarship to revoke its award to a Harvard student accused of antisemitism and pro-Hamas activism. Rep. Elise Stefanik, recently appointed to the board of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship...

Amit Cohen and Montana Tucker in "The Children of October 7" (2025). Credit: Orit Pnini/Courtesy.

Montana Tucker film on Oct. 7 kids to be available to stream globally

JNS StaffPublished May 28, 2025

Paramount+ and MTV Documentary Films told JNS exclusively on Tuesday that they plan to expand access to Montana Tucker’s documentary “The Children of October 7” on a global basis starting on June 2, the first day of Shavuot. The 36-minute film will...

IDF kills elite Hezbollah terrorist 3 miles from northern border

JNS StaffPublished May 27, 2025

An Israel Defense Forces aircraft eliminated a terrorist of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in Southern Lebanon on Monday, the military confirmed on Tuesday, sharing footage of the aerial attack. The strike was carried out in the Majdal Zoun area, approximately...

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, speaks to supporters at CDU headquarters in Berlin following preliminary results showing him leading in federal elections, Feb. 23, 2025. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

German chancellor issues rare public criticism of Israel

Philissa Cramer JTAPublished May 27, 2025

(JTA) — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has issued a rare public rebuke of Israel, saying he felt compelled to speak out because “international humanitarian law is really being violated” in Gaza. The comments come as the Israeli army is...

MK Sharren Haskel

Israeli official: ‘The world loves dead Jews’

Etgar Lefkovits (JNS)Published May 27, 2025

European leaders who have recently criticized Israel over its war against Hamas in Gaza have succumbed to political pressure fueled by a nefarious international media campaign against the Jewish state, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said Tuesday. The...

Ronen Bergman

NYT Magazine writer reveals Mossad secrets at St. Louis event

Jewish Light StaffPublished May 26, 2025

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ronen Bergman is coming to St. Louis as the featured speaker at the Jewish Federation’s 2nd Annual Men’s Event on Wednesday, June 18, at The Factory in Chesterfield. Co-chaired by Jeffrey Cohen...

A video by Guy Christensen, a pro-Palestinian influencer with more than 3 million followers. (Screenshot)

Pro-Palestinian TikToker with 3.4M followers, endorses murder of Israeli embassy employees

Ben Sales, JTAPublished May 23, 2025

Guy Christensen, a TikTok influencer with more than 3 million followers, came out in support of the shooting attack that killed two Israeli embassy employees. “I do not condemn the elimination of the Zionist officials who worked at the Israeli embassy...

Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were identified as the two Israeli embassy staffers killed in a shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2025. They had attended an embassy event to mark Israel's 77th Independence Day on May 10. (X)

‘She was one of us’: St. Louis reacts to murder of Kansas City native in DC shooting

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 22, 2025

St. Louis and Kansas City Jewish leaders are reacting to the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers—one an Overland Park, Kan. native—outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her partner, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, were gunned...

Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who was murdered at DC museum, worked to foster Israeli-Palestinian peace

Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who was murdered at DC museum, worked to foster Israeli-Palestinian peace

Erez Linn, (Israel Hayom via JNS)Published May 22, 2025

Sarah Lynn Milgrim, the American woman who was murdered on Wednesday with her Israeli partner, Yaron Lischinsky, when a terrorist opened fire at an event in Washington’s Capital Jewish Museum, was a graduate student at American University School of...

Capital Jewish Museum shooting suspect killed two ‘for Gaza.’

By Louis Keene, The ForwardPublished May 22, 2025

The man who allegedly walked up to two Israeli embassy staffers and shot them dead Wednesday night reportedly told eyewitnesses he “did it for Gaza.” But the event those staffers had just left at the Capital Jewish Museum highlighted an organization...

A man, standing behind police tape, talks on his cell phone outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Two Israeli embassy staffers were killed in the shooting. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images)

2 Israeli embassy staffers shot to death outside DC Jewish museum event

Ben Sales, JTAPublished May 22, 2025

(JTA) — Two people were shot dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where the American Jewish Committee was hosting an event. Both of the people killed were staffers at the Israeli embassy in Washington, according to Jewish...

Sen. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, on the Senate floor Monday arguing for Resolution 224. (Screenshot)

Resolution calling for ‘urgent delivery’ of Gaza aid co-sponsored by nearly all Senate Democrats

By Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 20, 2025

A Senate resolution calling for the “urgent delivery” of humanitarian aid to Gaza has received almost unanimous support from Democrats. The resolution calls on the U.S. government to use “all available diplomatic tools” to release the hostages...

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