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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 Heschel Raskas
Heschel Raskas (center) and his grandson, Aaron Raskas, take part in morning minyan with Israeli President Isaac Herzog last month in Israel, a few days before Aaron’s bar mitzvah.

When the President of Israel made room for a St. Louis bar mitzvah boy

BY HESCHEL RASKAS, Special To The Jewish Light
Published July 23, 2025
Heschel J. Raskas

Remembrance of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of blessed memory

By Heschel Raskas
Published November 11, 2020
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