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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
All content by Andrew Silow-Carroll

Top officials put a Jewish stamp on the Rio Olympics

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 16, 2016

In Krakow, Night of the Synagogues bolsters Jewish pride

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 6, 2016

In remote Madagascar, a new community chooses to be Jewish

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 5, 2016

What sex in the Book of Ruth can teach today’s teens

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 2, 2016

Jewish Lights, publisher of books on spirituality, sold to Nashville company

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published June 2, 2016
Members of the 2016 rabbinical class of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion reading their class prayer at an ordination ceremony at the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21, 2016. (HUC-JIR via Facebook)

Why a small word change is a big deal for Reform women rabbis

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 31, 2016

US health firms, Haifa hospital team up to ‘incubate’ digital medicine start-ups

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 27, 2016

Crash kills three workers at Jewish camp in Pennsylvania

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 27, 2016

NY Times editor calls out Donald Trump for ignoring supporters’ anti-Semitic tweets

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 26, 2016

$15M grant to update Reform movement’s Israel campus

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 23, 2016

Forward hires digital strategist as its new publisher

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 23, 2016

Is ‘Fiddler’ Zionist? It is when Israel’s UN envoy hosts a performance

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 13, 2016

Brazil’s Jews are scaling back on their kids’ birthday extravaganzas

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 13, 2016

OK, wise guy, how would YOU illustrate a circumcision?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 10, 2016

A day to join Israelis in a sad circle of grief

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 10, 2016

Yes, there is a Jewish left on campus, and it needs to be heard

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 4, 2016

Survivors’ welfare is a public, private and community responsibility

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 3, 2016

K-tel founder Philip Kives, farm boy who pioneered the infomercial, dies at 87

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published May 1, 2016

Rock legend Phil Lesh gathers musician friends for a Grateful Dead Passover

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 28, 2016

Sides swap character attacks in trial over Bay Area’s Koret Foundation

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 28, 2016

New documentary asks if we’re ready to laugh at the Holocaust

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 26, 2016

Orthodox parents of LGBT children seek communities that care

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 25, 2016

Jerusalem police thwart Passover plot to sacrifice goats in Old City

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 22, 2016

What a kippah tells you about its wearer, an expanded guide

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 21, 2016

Israel’s attorney general bars women from reciting priestly blessing at Kotel

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 21, 2016

‘I’m for Israel. Period.’ That’s the John Kasich I know.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 18, 2016

Can a united community still work miracles? Ask the Yemenite Jews.

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 12, 2016

Did ABC’s “Scandal” slur religious Jews? One group thinks so

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 8, 2016

NJ couple creates transgender support group honoring late daughter

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 6, 2016

A response to the response to our ‘Jewish Twitter’ ranking

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 5, 2016

Meet the ‘intensely neurotic’ Jew saving the world’s refugees

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published April 5, 2016
Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock “apartheid wall” in front of the iconic Low Library steps on March 3 during Israel Apartheid Week. Photo: Uriel Heilman

The missing left: Where’s the support for liberal Zionists on campus?

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 31, 2016

Op-Ed: Muslim textbooks in North America teach tolerance — and demonize Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 28, 2016

ANALYSIS: AIPAC and the perils of bipartisanship

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 23, 2016

How Frank Sinatra Jr. got a Jewish middle name

Andrew Silow-Carroll
Published March 17, 2016
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