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St. Louis Jewish Light

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

Gus Thornton and Dean Minderman play a benefit concert at BB's Jazz Soup and Blues (Photo: Jake Weisman)

Teens discover St. Louis’ rich, historical blues music scene

By Jake WeismanPublished November 10, 2010

St. Louis has a rich and storied history of blues music, dating back to artists such as Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy, to more contemporary ones such as Chuck Berry, Big George Brock and Tina Turner, who launched her career here. With all this homegrown...

Some famous Jewish faces may surprise you

By Jake WeismanPublished May 4, 2010

According to estimates from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute's study in 2007, there are 13.2 million Jews on Earth-less than 0.3 percent of the world's population. Although small in number, the Jewish people boast some pretty remarkable statistics....

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