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

St. Louis Jewish Light
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U.S. filmmaker Quentin Tarantino at the opening night of the Jerusalem Film Festival at the Cinematheque near the Old City of Jerusalem, on July 7, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

‘Crackhead Barney’ harasses Quentin Tarantino in New York

JNS
Published June 17, 2024
Portrait of Julia Andrews and Richard Sherman.

Jewish-American tunesmith behind Disney classics dies at 95

JNS
Published May 27, 2024
Humanitarian aid delivered to Palestinians via the temporary pier in Gaza, May 2024. Credit: U.S. Central Command.

Missouri Senator, others criticize ‘Gaza Pier’ plan, predict American casualties

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Published May 23, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Report: US withholding ‘sensitive intelligence’ on Hamas from Israel

JNS
Published May 12, 2024
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Source: Flickr.

ADL to Rep. Ilhan Omar: Apologize for ‘blood libel’

JNS
Published April 29, 2024
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, Dec. 19, 2023.

Trump: Jewish Biden voters ‘should have their head examined’

JNS
Published April 11, 2024
A photo posted to the Instagram page of the 20th Special Forces Group shows a service member, right, with a helmet patch that appears to depict a Nazi SS Totenkopf. (Screenshot via Twitter)

National Guard unit deletes Instagram post of soldier with Nazi patch

JNS
Published March 28, 2024
A scene from Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List." (Universal Studios)

Robin Williams and Mel Gibson surprising links to ‘Schindler’s List’

JNS
Published February 26, 2024
Tiffany Haddish. Source: YouTube.

Actress Tiffany Haddish visits Israel, urges others to as well

JNS
Published February 22, 2024
Graves of Kibbutz Be'eri residents whom Hamas terrorists murdered on Oct. 7, at Kibbutz Revivim, south of Beersheva, Nov. 15, 2023.

35% of younger Americans believe Hamas’s false claims

JNS
Published February 11, 2024
Clarence B. Jones, a visiting professor at the University of San Francisco and scholar writer in residence for the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute, with former President Barack Obama meets in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 2, 2015. Jones worked with King on the “I Have a Dream” speech.

Foundation to Combat Antisemitism buys 30-second Super Bowl ad

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Published February 5, 2024
IDF soldiers conduct operations against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 21, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Israel rejects Hamas’s terms of surrender

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Published January 21, 2024
Chabad Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Jan. 9, 2024. (Luke Tress)

‘Explosion’ of conspiracy theories on social media about ‘tunnels’ at Chabad

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Published January 11, 2024

‘Where do you think Israel is going?’ Bill Maher quips in viral eight-minute clip

JNS
Published December 18, 2023
Kanye West, aka Ye. Source: Twitter.

Kanye lashes out at Jews and the ‘pyramids in St. Louis and Missouri’ in latest rant

JNS
Published December 18, 2023
Shin Bet head: ‘We’ll kill Hamas leaders in Qatar, Turkey’

Shin Bet head: ‘We’ll kill Hamas leaders in Qatar, Turkey’

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Published December 4, 2023
:One of the campus buildings at the University of California, Berkeley. Credit: Max Pixel/Creative Commons.

University sued for failure to stop spread of antisemitism on campus

JNS
Published November 28, 2023
Actor Jason Alexander holds a picture of 9-year-old Ohad Munder-Zichri, Nov. 18, 2023. Source: X.

Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame speaks up for Hamas captive

JNS
Published November 19, 2023
Israelis hold up photographs of a mother and child held captive by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Nov. 2, 2023.

Qatar floats deal to trade 50 hostages for three-day truce

JNS
Published November 15, 2023
Poll: Young US voters likelier to blame Israel, tend to trend pro-Hamas

Poll: Young US voters likelier to blame Israel, tend to trend pro-Hamas

JNS
Published October 24, 2023
Israeli soldiers patrol a main road near the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Oct. 7, 2023.

Israel shifts to ‘offensive phase’ of Gaza op after 700 killed

JNS
Published October 8, 2023
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit and damaged the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon as part of a multi-pronged attack on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history: A timeline of devastation

JNS
Published October 8, 2023
IDF Artillery Corps personnel near the border with Lebanon, July 6, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

IDF shells Lebanon after Hezbollah fires into Israel

JNS
Published October 8, 2023
The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Israel hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Oct. 7, 2023.

250 Israelis dead, 1,500 injured amid Hamas rockets and terror infiltrations

JNS
Published October 7, 2023
Israeli security forces search from Hamas terrorists in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Oct. 7, 2023.

Active hostage situations in at least two Israeli communities

JNS
Published October 7, 2023
Dr. Many Cohen. Credit: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

Biden taps Mandy Cohen as new director of CDC

JNS
Published June 19, 2023
Archaeologists discovered this brass compass from the massacre of 35 Israeli soldiers in 1948, April 24, 2023. Photo by Yuli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities

Israeli archaeologists recover artifact from ‘The Battle of the 35’

JNS
Published April 25, 2023

Thousands attend funeral Lucy Dee, mother of slain sisters, two days after their funerals

JNS
Published April 11, 2023
IDF Artillery Corps seen firing into Gaza near the Israeli border on May 20, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

IDF strikes Hamas post in Gaza after explosive detonated near troops along border

JNS
Published March 8, 2023

ADL, BBYO youth group initiative to help youth tackle antisemitism

JNS
Published November 7, 2022

Kanye West: I’m targeted by ‘Jewish media mafia’

JNS
Published October 19, 2022

Student at anti-Israel march on Illinois campus charged for rock-throwing

JNS
Published June 9, 2022
.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr arriving in Israel on May 14, 2021. Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem/Twitter.

US State Department officials visit Middle East hoping to reduce tensions

JNS
Published April 21, 2022
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

Right-wing politicians slam coalition over Jerusalem violence

JNS
Published April 18, 2022
Mint Chocolate matzo and other cool new ideas for Passover

Mint Chocolate matzo and other cool new ideas for Passover

JNS
Published April 11, 2022
Ben Ferencz, 103, prosecutor of Nuremberg trials with awarded with Medal of Freedom

Ben Ferencz, 103, prosecutor of Nuremberg trials with awarded with Medal of Freedom

JNS
Published April 9, 2022
Teens face probation for vandalizing Florida rabbi’s home in hate crime

Teens face probation for vandalizing Florida rabbi’s home in hate crime

JNS
Published March 31, 2022
Still shots from video footage of the assailant in an anti-Semitic attack in New York City. Source: NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force.

Attackers call Jewish men ‘dirty Jews,’ punch victim for wearing IDF sweatshirt in Brooklyn

JNS
Published December 29, 2021
An example of anti-Semitic fliers found in at least eight states blaming Jews for COVID-19. Source: Secure Community Network.

Fliers found in Illinois blaming Jews for COVID-19

JNS
Published December 22, 2021
Illinois prisoners face murder, hate-crime charges for killing Jewish inmate

Illinois prisoners face murder, hate-crime charges for killing Jewish inmate

JNS
Published December 9, 2021
Gil Ofarim, a German-Israeli singer, said in a video posted to social media that he had been denied a hotel room in Leipzig, Germany, after being told to hide his Jewish star necklace.

German Israeli singer at crux of anti-Semitic hotel incident accused of fabricating story

JNS
Published October 18, 2021
Ben Cohen is a New York City-based journalist and author who writes a weekly column on Jewish and international affairs for JNS. 

25 years after the AMIA bombing, justice is again denied

By Ben Cohen
Published March 7, 2019
Ben Cohen

Abbas, Netanyahu UN speeches signal that 30-year peace process is now dead

By Ben Cohen
Published October 4, 2018
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
A monument in Ramat Gan, Israel, serves as a memorial for the Iraqi Jews killed during the Farhud (Arabic for ‘violent dispossession’) in June 1941.  Photo: PikiWiki Israel

Remembering pogrom against Iraqi Jews, 75 years later

By Ben Cohen
Published June 8, 2016

Professor is latest victim of anti-Israel thought police

By Ben Cohen
Published April 22, 2015
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
Ben Cohen

Should Jews support a boycott of Vladimir Putin-led Russia?

By Ben Cohen
Published August 14, 2013
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