Skip to Main Content
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

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

St. Louis Jewish Light

World news

Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks during the 15th Annual Holocaust Museum LA Gala at The Beverly Hills Hotel on Nov. 6, 2023. The museum's statement about its retracted social media post of Sept. 5, 2025, is inset. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

L.A. Holocaust museum sparks outrage with now deleted post

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 8, 2025

(JTA) — Amid sharp criticism, Los Angeles’ Holocaust museum deleted an Instagram post over the weekend that proclaimed, ”’Never again’ can’t only mean never again for Jews.” The museum apologized for the post and shot down speculation...

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Ramot Junction, near the entrance to Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Six murdered in Jerusalem shooting by ‘Palestinian resistance fighters’

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 8, 2025

Six Israelis were murdered and a dozen more wounded in a mass-shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on Monday morning. The slain victims were identified as Yosef David, 43, from Jerusalem; Sarah Mendelson,...

Elie Wiesel

How the world changed Elie Wiesel and how he changed the world

By Simi Horwitz, The ForwardPublished September 7, 2025

Perhaps the most torturous image in Oren Rudavsky’s searing documentary, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, is that of a child being hanged in Auschwitz. Dangling from the gallows, his legs twisting this way and that, the child took half an hour to die...

Peter Sellers 1973 by Allan Warren

Peter Sellers at 100: The hidden Jewish story behind the comedy icon

Benjamin Ivry, The ForwardPublished September 7, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Peter Sellers, the English Jewish comedian who was born 100 years ago on Sept. 8, 1925, lived at a time before leading...

Visual arts teacher Ariel Bassano (L) stands next to a painting identified by Dutch newspaper AD as believed to be "Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi, stolen by the Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector, as it is displayed at the Public Prosecutor's Office in Mar del Plata, Argentina, on Sept. 3, 2025.(Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)

She tried to sell her Nazi father’s looted Jewish art. Then came the raid

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished September 4, 2025

(JTA) — After multiple failed attempts, Argentine police have recovered a painting that the Nazis looted from a Dutch Jewish art dealer during the Holocaust. Dutch journalists first spotted the painting, “Portrait of a Lady” by Giuseppe Ghislandi,...

Michael Schill, President of Northwestern University, testifies at a hearing called "Calling for Accountability: Stopping Antisemitic College Chaos" before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Capitol Hill on May 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. University leaders are being asked to testify by House Republicans about how colleges have responded to pro-Palestinian protests and allegations of antisemitism on their campuses. (Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

Northwestern’s Jewish president resigns amid pressures over handling of campus antisemitism

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished September 4, 2025

(JTA) — After more than a year of strife over his handling of campus antisemitism, the Jewish president of Northwestern University says he is stepping down weeks before the start of the school’s fall semester. Michael Schill’s resignation...

Trump on Israel: ‘They’re not winning the world of public relations’

By Grace GilsonPublished September 3, 2025

(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Israel support in Congress has weakened during the Gaza war, telling The Daily Caller that the once-powerful pro-Israel lobby no longer holds the same influence on Capitol Hill. | RELATED: Lawyer who...

AEPi brothers at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn., painted the campus rock on Yom Hashoah. Credit: Courtesy.

AEPi builds out toolkit to help fix campus antisemitism

Rob Derdiger (JNS)Published September 3, 2025

The AEPi antisemitism toolkit is the fraternity’s latest effort to prepare Jewish students and administrators for the new academic year, aiming to protect campuses from rising hate and strengthen student leadership. Recently, several Jewish organizations,...

At Manhattan's only Reform Jewish day school, the relatively new Makor program puts students into direct conversation with texts from the Torah, Mishnah, and other rabbinic writings. (Courtesy Rodeph Sholom School)

My kids found diversity and serious Jewish study at this unique Jewish day school

Jonah Lowenfeld, JTAPublished September 3, 2025

(New York Jewish Week) — Rodeph Sholom School diversity drew our family in when we realized that our kids’ Jewish lives needed more than Shabbat and synagogue — they needed a Jewish day school where learning and community come together. |...

A vigil organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Maryland campus took place under court order on Oct. 7, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Judge lifts Pitt ban, reinstates SJP chapter amid campus protests

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished September 3, 2025

(JTA) — The Pitt SJP chapter was reinstated by a federal judge, who ordered the University of Pittsburgh to lift its suspension, saying the school unfairly restricted the pro-Palestinian group’s ability to recruit students as the new school year...

Masked mob attacks Israeli man at crowded California pier

Masked mob attacks Israeli man at crowded California pier

Aaron Bandler, JNS StaffPublished September 2, 2025

An Israeli man was assaulted by protesters in the Los Angeles area on Sunday. A video that has circulated on social media shows a group of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounding the man and punching him repeatedly at the Santa Monica Pier, a popular...

A display of copies of Adolf Hitler's book “Mein Kampf.” Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Lawyer who praised ‘Mein Kampf’ now accuses Harvard of antisemitism

By Arno Rosenfeld, The ForwardPublished September 2, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. A Justice Department attorney who has defended the Trump administration’s crackdown on Harvard over allegations...

Load More Stories