JTA Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

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

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

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

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

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

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

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

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Published August 8, 2021

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

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

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

JTA
Published July 2, 2020

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to perform free online concert

By Marcy Oster
Published June 22, 2020

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

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

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

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes 8-hour visit to Israel in first foreign trip since start of pandemic

By Marcy Oster
Published May 13, 2020

Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’ that keeps Netanyahu as prime minister for now

By Marcy Oster
Published April 20, 2020

Israel’s president asks Peru to free Israeli woman arrested for drug smuggling

By Marcy Oster
Published February 9, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicted for corruption

By Marcy Oster
Published November 21, 2019

Americans in Israel warned over planned demonstrations against U.S. and Bahrain summit

By Marcy Oster
Published June 23, 2019

It’s time for a Torah emoji, and this organization is working to make it happen

By Marcy Oster
Published June 4, 2019

Fire devastates Israeli community founded by Shlomo Carlebach

By Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

St. Louis Jewish teen scoops de Blasio’s presidential candidacy announcement

By Marcy Oster
Published May 16, 2019

6 Democratic senators introduce resolution to restore US humanitarian aid to Palestinians

By Marcy Oster
Published April 18, 2019

Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes during lunar landing

By Marcy Oster
Published April 11, 2019

Mike Pence to make first visit to Auschwitz, meet Netanyahu in Poland

BY MARCY OSTER
Published February 12, 2019

Rabbi reports shooting damage at Ohio synagogue

BY MARCY OSTER
Published February 11, 2019

‘The Band’s Visit,’ Drake win Grammy Awards

BY MARCY OSTER
Published February 11, 2019

Vandals smash open grave of prominent rabbi, damage 3 chapels at Manchester Jewish cemetery

By Marcy Oster
Published February 11, 2019

Omri Casspi, first Israeli in NBA, waived by Memphis Grizzlies

BY MARCY OSTER
Published February 10, 2019

Reported homophobic incidents in Israel increased by 54 percent in 2018, report finds

By Marcy Oster
Published February 10, 2019

Israelis are top users of social media in the world

By Marcy Oster
Published February 8, 2019

Swastikas sprayed inside and outside of an Atlanta-area high school

By Marcy Oster
Published February 7, 2019

Upstate New York yeshiva set on fire and painted with swastikas

By Marcy Oster
Published February 7, 2019

Netanyahu wins Likud primary followed by 4 rivals

By Marcy Oster
Published February 6, 2019

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

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

OSU student government votes down Israel boycott and divestment resolution

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Arrest made in attack on Hasidic man in Brooklyn

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Super soccer star Messi joins Beitar Jerusalem team fans club

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Israel’s chief rabbi lights Hanukkah candles in Polish parliament

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Princeton is naming a residential college after Ronald and Debra Perelman

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Portugal sets aside a day to remember Inquisition victims

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu rejected in bid to have donors pay his legal fees

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at events around the world

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Israeli technology effectively prevents attacks during G20

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Hanukkah menorah is toppled near Harvard campus

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

3 large swastikas spray-painted in Brooklyn neighborhood

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah and Iran discussed at meeting between Netanyahu and Pompeo

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Israel launches operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels on northern border

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

ID system for asylum seekers in Mexico recalls Holocaust tattoos

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Synagogue in Basel, Switzerland vandalized

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

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

JTA
Published December 3, 2018