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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.

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All content by BY ERIC MINK
Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States speaks at the CPAC Washington, DC conference at Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, March 4, 2023. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Eric Mink: ‘Deciding Trump’s fate in the latest case will be New Yorkers’

BY ERIC MINK, Special To The Jewish Light
Published April 11, 2023
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York. Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Eric Mink: Defying labels in a search for truth

By Eric Mink, Special For The Jewish Light
Published June 13, 2022
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York. Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Pondering the disconnect between coronavirus death toll, election results

BY ERIC MINK
Published November 19, 2020
 

‘Impossible’ ’69 moon mission soars in documentary

BY ERIC MINK
Published July 3, 2019
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Mueller’s cold, hard truth: Russia’s 2016 attack on the United States

By Eric Mink
Published June 6, 2019
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Redemption may be elusive for Michael Cohen

By Eric Mink
Published March 7, 2019
Eric Mink's 1968 photo of Joni Mitchell. 

My brief encounter with Joni Mitchell

BY ERIC MINK
Published February 6, 2019
Eric Mink

Is Trump an anti-Semite? It might not really matter

BY ERIC MINK
Published November 21, 2018
Eric Mink

‘Frontline’ cuts through the noise of Trump-Russia-election scandal

BY ERIC MINK
Published October 4, 2018
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York. Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com. 

Call it what it is: Child abuse

By Eric Mink
Published July 12, 2018
Eric Mink

What we know about Trump after three years

By Eric Mink
Published June 6, 2018
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Never Again: A Turning Point?

BY ERIC MINK
Published April 4, 2018
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

He’s got rhythm: Columnist makes A-fib list

BY ERIC MINK
Published March 7, 2018
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Ignoring Trump isn’t an option

BY ERIC MINK
Published February 7, 2018
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Alabama Senate race extraordinary in every way

BY ERIC MINK
Published December 7, 2017
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

White House could use some role models

BY ERIC MINK
Published November 1, 2017
U.S. troops watch over a body.Photo: "The Vietnam War" via PBS, © The Vietnam Film Project LLC

History, heartbreaking art merge in Ken Burns’ ‘Vietnam War’ series

BY ERIC MINK
Published September 13, 2017
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Free Health Care Advice for Republicans

BY ERIC MINK
Published August 2, 2017
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York. Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Health care retreat would betray founding principles

BY ERIC MINK
Published July 13, 2017
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

The self-inflicted roots of Trump’s problems

BY ERIC MINK
Published June 8, 2017
Eric Mink photo of the headstone on the grave of his great-grandmother, Sarah Serkin. 

The emotional toll of fallen headstones

BY ERIC MINK
Published March 1, 2017

What’s in Trump’s heart? Time to find out

BY ERIC MINK
Published January 4, 2017
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St.  Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Trump’s pose against political correctness

BY ERIC MINK
Published October 5, 2016
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

The Hillary Clinton emails: What are the facts?

BY ERIC MINK
Published September 7, 2016
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Extraordinary Anastasia Somoza captivates DNC

BY ERIC MINK
Published August 3, 2016
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Champion of the working class? Candidate’s record suggests otherwise

By Eric Mink
Published July 6, 2016
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

How Trump can win the nomination

By Eric Mink
Published April 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. 

The stakes changed after Scalia died

BY ERIC MINK
Published March 2, 2016
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University.  He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com

Oregon extremists take easy path to publicity, failure

By Eric Mink
Published February 3, 2016

Redford fights Rather’s good fight

BY ERIC MINK
Published November 4, 2015
Hope's exterior

Life and death in Hope: The true value of memory

By Eric Mink
Published November 5, 2014
Illustration by Mary Engelbreit. Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved. Used with permission of the artist.

Preventing future Fergusons starts with recognizing our humanity

BY ERIC MINK
Published September 3, 2014
Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) delivers his impassioned rant on air in the 1976 film "Network."

A ‘Network’ reality check

BY ERIC MINK
Published March 5, 2014
Henry Hampton; Photo: Dave Henderson, courtesy of Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis.

Henry Hampton’s documentaries withstand the test of time

By Eric Mink
Published February 6, 2014
Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York. His column appears in the Jewish Light on the first Wednesday of every month. You can contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Duff’s: Land of hope and dreams

By Eric Mink
Published July 3, 2013
Eric Mink

The back stories behind the government’s ‘snooping’ on media

By Eric Mink
Published June 5, 2013
In ‘Never Forget to Lie,’ documentary filmmaker Marian Marzynski, who survived the Holocaust as a child, returns to Warsaw to meet with and interview other child survivors.

PBS documentary explores holocaust memories

By Eric Mink
Published May 8, 2013

Some take-away lessons from the rise and fall of Robert Archibald

By Eric Mink
Published April 10, 2013
Eric Mink

Eric Mink: Gun owners get it

By ERIC MINK
Published March 6, 2013
“Zero Dark Thirty” has been criticized for its depiction of torture.

Torture: Separating fact and fiction

By Eric Mink
Published February 6, 2013
Sarah Silverman in JCER video

The obscenity of Super PACs

By Eric Mink
Published October 3, 2012

Akin’s comment triggers biting responses

By Eric Mink
Published September 5, 2012
Eric Mink

The blame game has no winners

By Eric Mink
Published August 1, 2012
Eric Mink

Conservatives channel ‘Animal House’ on ACA decision

By Eric Mink
Published July 4, 2012
Walter Cronkite on TV during a presidential debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976.

The truth behind Cronkite’s allure

By Eric Mink
Published June 6, 2012
Eric Mink

Crossing the line from selfish to predatory

By Eric Mink
Published May 2, 2012

Contraception debate a particularly bitter pill amid election-year politics

By Eric Mink
Published March 7, 2012

Pakistan mirrors U.S. television sleaze

By Eric Mink
Published February 1, 2012
Eric Mink

‘Happy and prosperous’ New Year? Not hardly!

By Eric Mink
Published November 2, 2011

Honoring 9/11 — with the TV off

By Eric Mink
Published September 7, 2011

Sometimes hope is just what’s needed

BY ERIC MINK
Published October 15, 2009

Stem cells are test of responsible scientific freedom

BY ERIC MINK
Published March 19, 2009
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