BY ERIC FINGERHUT Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Published October 3, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

Published August 27, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

Published August 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Published June 16, 2021

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

Published July 2, 2020

Ohio’s Health Dept. director resigns after backlash over stay-at-home orders

Published June 18, 2020

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

Published June 18, 2020

Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust

Published December 6, 2018

Israeli special ops force was in Gaza for two months before its firefight with Hamas, report says

Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network

Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

Published December 6, 2018

OSU student government votes down Israel boycott and divestment resolution

Published December 6, 2018

Arrest made in attack on Hasidic man in Brooklyn

Published December 6, 2018

Super soccer star Messi joins Beitar Jerusalem team fans club

Published December 6, 2018

Israel’s chief rabbi lights Hanukkah candles in Polish parliament

Published December 6, 2018

Princeton is naming a residential college after Ronald and Debra Perelman

Published December 5, 2018

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ season 2 debuts on Amazon to glowing reviews

Published December 5, 2018

Saudi dissident sues Israeli cyber tech company in death of Jamal Khashoggi

Published December 5, 2018

Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ sells at auction for nearly $3 million

Published December 5, 2018

New Hampshire town rejects menorah display. Christmas tree could be next.

Published December 5, 2018

Portugal sets aside a day to remember Inquisition victims

Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu rejected in bid to have donors pay his legal fees

Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu calls violence against women ‘terrorism’ following a rally by 30,000 in Tel Aviv

Published December 5, 2018

OU’s exec named to NY State Attorney General-elect’s transition team

Published December 5, 2018

Portugal government committee approves Memorial Day for the Victims of the Inquisition

Published December 5, 2018

Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at events around the world

Published December 5, 2018

Israeli technology effectively prevents attacks during G20

Published December 5, 2018

Hanukkah menorah is toppled near Harvard campus

Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah tunnels are ‘concrete threat’ to Israel’s Galilee region, Netanyahu says

Published December 4, 2018

Evidence of Rohingya genocide is ‘compelling,’ US Holocaust Museum says

Published December 4, 2018

Kosher ban is okay with Jewish supporters of Germany’s far right party

Published December 4, 2018

3 large swastikas spray-painted in Brooklyn neighborhood

Published December 4, 2018

101 Jewish and pro-Israel groups ask universities to oppose Israel boycotts

Published December 4, 2018

Rashida Tlaib, newly elected Congresswoman, says she will lead a lawmakers’ trip to West Bank

Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah and Iran discussed at meeting between Netanyahu and Pompeo

Published December 4, 2018

Israel launches operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels on northern border

Published December 4, 2018

Saudi Arabia loses world chess tournament for refusing visas to Israeli players

Published December 3, 2018

Thousands of Israeli women to strike in protest of violence against women

Published December 3, 2018

ID system for asylum seekers in Mexico recalls Holocaust tattoos

Published December 3, 2018

Condemn anti-Semitic image on pro-government magazine cover, Lauder tells Orban

Published December 3, 2018

Mental status of driver who tried to run down 2 Jews outside LA synagogue questioned

Published December 3, 2018

Synagogue in Basel, Switzerland vandalized

Published December 3, 2018

Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony held outside Tree of Life synagogue building

Published December 3, 2018

Netanyahu flies to Brussels to meet Pompeo

Published December 3, 2018

Trump pledges support for Jewish victims of hate in Hanukkah message

Published December 2, 2018

Jobbik party member resigns leadership positions after recording surfaces of anti-Semitic act

Published December 2, 2018

Anti-Semitic vandalism found in library book on Jewish topic at Carnegie Mellon U

Published December 2, 2018

UN General Assembly approves 6 anti-Israel resolutions

Published December 2, 2018

Jared Kushner, in Buenos Aires for G20, pays tribute to victims of AMIA Jewish center attack

Published December 2, 2018

Marc Lamont Hill in op-ed apologizes for use of phrase ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’

Published December 2, 2018

Menorah vandalized at Penn State University

Published December 2, 2018

Miami police sergeant suspended after video shows him throwing sacred Jewish text

Published December 2, 2018

Canadian lawmakers recognize Jewish refugees from Arab countries

Published December 2, 2018

U.S. broadcaster head apologizes to George Soros for anti-Semitic report about him

Published December 2, 2018

Hungarian magazine publishes anti-Semitic image of Jewish leader on cover

Published December 2, 2018

Brett Favre, other celebrities duped into recording anti-Semitic messages

Published December 2, 2018

Iran test-fires missile capable of striking parts of Europe and Israel

Published December 2, 2018

Assailant punches Hasidic man in the head in Brooklyn

Published December 2, 2018

Israel Police recommend bribery charges against Benjamin Netanyahu in corruption case 4000

Published December 2, 2018

Anatoly Altman, Soviet Jew who tried to hijack a plane to Israel, dies

Published November 30, 2018

Israeli archaeologists say they found the ring of Jesus’ killer

Published November 30, 2018

Jordanian assaults 2 Israeli co-workers in Eilat in suspected terrorist attack

Published November 30, 2018

Chief rabbi says Dutch Labour Party opposed an anti-Semitism definition to woo Muslims

Published November 30, 2018

Anti-Semitic crimes rise by 60% in Canada

Published November 30, 2018

Israel accused of airstrike on Hezbollah weapons cache in Syria

Published November 30, 2018

2 Jewish boys attacked in Brooklyn in separate incidents

Published November 29, 2018

CNN fires commentator Marc Lamont Hill, who called for a ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’

Published November 29, 2018

Baltimore Ravens lineman to wear Israeli flag on his cleats in Sunday’s NFL game

Published November 29, 2018

Quentin Tarantino and Israeli singer Daniela Pick marry under a chuppah

Published November 29, 2018

Boycott groups succeed in removing Israeli professors from South African conference program

Published November 29, 2018

CNN commentator’s UN speech calls for a ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’

Published November 29, 2018

Reform movement’s Kutz Camp, incubator for teen leaders, is shutting down

Published November 29, 2018

Ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress

Published November 29, 2018

Jewish Americans sue Airbnb over plan to remove listings in West Bank settlements

Published November 29, 2018

300-pound menorah stolen from Boston-area synagogue and later recovered

Published November 29, 2018

Houston synagogue fire investigated as arson

Published November 29, 2018

Office of Jewish professor at Columbia U vandalized

Published November 29, 2018

Ambassador calls for release of US citizen arrested by Palestinians for selling land to Jews

Published November 28, 2018

AIPAC seeks a director of outreach to progressives in New York area

Published November 28, 2018

72 Jewish groups call on Congress to pass bills to combat anti-Semitism

Published November 28, 2018

Trump says US is keeping troops in Middle East to help Israel

Published November 28, 2018

Rabbis who survived Pittsburgh shooting mark 30 days of mourning

Published November 28, 2018

Irish Senate advances bill that bans settlement goods

Published November 28, 2018

Worshipper shot in Pittsburgh synagogue attack released from hospital

Published November 28, 2018

Jared Kushner to receive Mexico’s highest award for foreigners

Published November 28, 2018

Ivanka Trump says there is ‘no equivalency’ between her personal White House emails and Hillary Clinton’s

Published November 28, 2018

Driver in alleged Los Angeles synagogue car ramming attack charged with hate crime

Published November 28, 2018

Labour Party drops investigation of lawmaker it says ‘screamed abuse’ during party anti-Semitism debate

Published November 28, 2018

Florida Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis pledges support for school safety, school choice in Jewish day school visit

Published November 28, 2018

Hungary pledges $3.4 million to fighting anti-Semitism in Europe

Published November 28, 2018

Dutch lawmakers call on government to adopt international definition of anti-Semitism

Published November 28, 2018

Dutch Railways to examine compensation for Holocaust victims, descendants

Published November 28, 2018

Ilhan Omar lauds Jewish-Muslim cooperation in fighting bigotry

Published November 27, 2018

Holocaust scholar Randolph Louis Braham, a two-time Jewish National Book Award winner, dies at 95

Published November 27, 2018

These 5 countries are falling short on returning Nazi-looted art

Published November 27, 2018

Israeli army investigating blown Gaza operation that led to hundreds of rocket attacks

Published November 27, 2018