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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

Former prisoner says group changed her life

By Susan FademPublished May 22, 2011

Arrested in her car at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Patti was charged with possession of crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia. A would-be “girl next door,” she says, and a confirmand of Temple Israel, she violated the drug-free terms of her five-year...

Rabbi James Bennett

Finding their calling as rabbis

By Susan FademPublished October 12, 2010

Career choices have swelled exponentially since the days when nursery rhymes listed such options as "Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief." But even today, how many kids grow up determined to become a rabbi?Not many, at...

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