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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

All content by By Ben Cohen
IDF soldiers conduct operations against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 21, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Israel rejects Hamas’s terms of surrender

JNS
Published January 21, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton visit students at a school in Kfar Saba, Feb. 9, 2022.

Israel to lift indoor mask mandate

JNS
Published April 21, 2022
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics.  The senior editor of  The Tower Magazine and TheTower.org, Cohen is the author of “Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism.”

Netanyahu’s Russian realism

By Ben Cohen
Published June 29, 2016
Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org. His writings on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics have been published in Commentary, the New York Post and Ha’aretz. His book, “Some Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism” (Edition Critic, 2014), is now available through Amazon. Op-Ed distributed by JNS.org.

Why the Kurds are a beacon of hope in the Middle East

By Ben Cohen
Published June 18, 2014
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