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
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
All content by Ellen Braunstein

Rabbi Kenneth Roseman, 80, led synagogues in Texas and Wisconsin

Ellen Braunstein
Published April 29, 2020
Campers at Big Idea/JCC Day Camp in Tenafly, N.J., incorporate robotics into Lego projects. (Courtesy of Kaplen JCC on the Palisades)

Summer camps offer kids an immersion in Israel’s tech prowess

Ellen Braunstein
Published January 29, 2018

At this Holocaust museum, you can speak with holograms of survivors

Ellen Braunstein
Published January 22, 2018

In the shadow of Wrigley, Chicago’s newest kosher deli pitches cured meats and good deeds

Ellen Braunstein
Published December 12, 2017
The Shalom Memorial Funeral Home is being sued by a Chicago-area family. (Courtesy of Shalom Memorial Funeral Home)

Botched burial traumatized mourners, says Chicago lawsuit

Ellen Braunstein
Published August 29, 2017
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