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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

More and more Jews are choosing cremation. These rabbis aren’t happy about it.

More and more Jews are choosing cremation. These rabbis aren’t happy about it.

By Stewart Ain, The ForwardPublished January 8, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Ira Wechterman knows that Jewish tradition says Jewish bodies should be interred. It’s what he was taught, and what...

SS troops guard members of the Jewish resistance captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Picture between 19 April 1943 and 16 May 1943 taken at Nowolipie street looking East, near intersection with Smocza street. In the back one can see ghetto wall with a gate. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum/Wikimedia Commons)

These 7 facts about America’s role during the holocaust might surprise you

By Stewart Ain, Hey Alma!Published September 15, 2022
When Nazi Germany began persecuting Jews in the 1930s, some American Jews feared that protesting publicly would backfire, and they stayed silent.

Meet the Jewish man embracing antisemtism and leading protests against a Michigan synagogue

By Stewart Ain, The ForwardPublished August 8, 2022

The 76-year-old Holocaust denier who has protested outside a Michigan synagogue nearly every Shabbat for 19 years was born Jewish, attended Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah and used to attend High Holiday services at the synagogue he targets. What...

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