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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 Gabe Friedman

Israel Law Center nets $330 million for family of pastor abducted by North Korea

Gabe Friedman
Published April 17, 2015

Hillary Clinton’s campaign logo looks a lot like Hadassah’s new logo

Gabe Friedman
Published April 15, 2015

Northwestern University library hit with swastika

Gabe Friedman
Published April 15, 2015

Nazi-hunter group praises Germany’s efforts to track down ex-Nazis

Gabe Friedman
Published April 14, 2015

Netanyahu phones Putin to object to missile sale to Iran

Gabe Friedman
Published April 14, 2015

Putin lifts ban on Russian air defense missile sales to Iran

Gabe Friedman
Published April 13, 2015

8 amazing photos of the soon-to-be gone Streit’s matzah factory

Gabe Friedman
Published April 8, 2015

The Duggar family now includes an ‘Israel’

Gabe Friedman
Published April 7, 2015

Jon Stewart defends Trevor Noah on ‘The Daily Show’

Gabe Friedman
Published April 7, 2015

Int’l soccer chief rejects Palestinian bid to ban Israel

Gabe Friedman
Published April 7, 2015

Does Don Draper wish he was Jewish?

Gabe Friedman
Published April 6, 2015

Firm refuses to insure Belgian kindergarten, says risk of terrorist attack is too high

Gabe Friedman
Published April 3, 2015

Sorry, Kirk Douglas — we were fooled by Playboy’s underground tunnel story

Gabe Friedman
Published April 2, 2015

Kirk Douglas’ underground tunnel to the Playboy mansion is no April Fool’s joke

Gabe Friedman
Published April 1, 2015

British university conference on Israel’s right to exist cancelled over protest fears

Gabe Friedman
Published April 1, 2015

Soren Kam, among most wanted Nazi criminals, dies at 93

Gabe Friedman
Published March 30, 2015

What does the new ‘Daily Show’ host think about Israel?

Gabe Friedman
Published March 30, 2015

Meet Eric Greitens — a Navy SEAL, Rhodes Scholar and would-be governor of Missouri

Gabe Friedman
Published March 30, 2015

Woman arrested for sexual abuse of teenagers at a bar mitzvah

Gabe Friedman
Published March 27, 2015

ADL slams Lena Dunham’s New Yorker piece

Gabe Friedman
Published March 27, 2015

Over 2,500 Y.U. medical school employees may lose jobs

Gabe Friedman
Published March 27, 2015

Will haredi Orthodox Jews embrace pre-nups that protect women from becoming agunot?

Gabe Friedman
Published March 26, 2015
Participants at one of Michael Hebb’s “test” seders use the resources from Seder2015.org. (Scott Macklin)

Seder2015 brings Passover into the digital age

Gabe Friedman
Published March 25, 2015

Netanyahu to appoint Kahlon as Israel’s finance minister

Gabe Friedman
Published March 24, 2015

Jeb Bush disagrees with James Baker’s critique of Israel, Netanyahu

Gabe Friedman
Published March 24, 2015

E.U. report mulls sanctions on Israel for East Jerusalem settlement building

Gabe Friedman
Published March 22, 2015

Australia’s prime minister apologizes for Goebbels comparison

Gabe Friedman
Published March 20, 2015

Australia’s prime minister apologizes for Goebbels comparison

Gabe Friedman
Published March 20, 2015

Val Weisler’s ‘Validation Project’ empowers bullied teens

Gabe Friedman
Published March 19, 2015

How a chocolate bar drove Israeli women from the polls

Gabe Friedman
Published March 18, 2015

Ari Shavit’s ‘My Promised Land’ to be made into HBO film

Gabe Friedman
Published March 17, 2015

Ex-teacher at British Jewish schools to be retried for sexual assault

Gabe Friedman
Published March 17, 2015

Bar Refaeli wants to judge you

Gabe Friedman
Published March 16, 2015

Chuck Norris endorses Netanyahu

Gabe Friedman
Published March 16, 2015

2 men charged for links to Hyper Cacher shooter

Gabe Friedman
Published March 13, 2015

#AskHamas is one big #TwitterFail

Gabe Friedman
Published March 13, 2015

Paris’ Hyper Cacher market will reopen on Sunday

Gabe Friedman
Published March 13, 2015

Tragedy in Brooklyn shines light on charity crowdfunding platform

Gabe Friedman
Published March 12, 2015

Zoe Butchen uses Taylor Swift song to fight Parkinson’s

Gabe Friedman
Published March 12, 2015

Europe’s undercover yarmulke journalists

Gabe Friedman
Published March 10, 2015

Israelis win best app award with Fansino

Gabe Friedman
Published March 10, 2015

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach apologizes to Susan Rice for attack ad

Gabe Friedman
Published March 10, 2015

Documentary film pioneer Albert Maysles dead at 88

Gabe Friedman
Published March 6, 2015

Hain Celestial buys Empire Kosher Poultry, country’s largest kosher poultry producer

Gabe Friedman
Published March 6, 2015

ADL condemns Farrakhan’s claim that Jews were behind 9/11

Gabe Friedman
Published March 6, 2015

PLO votes to cut security cooperation with Israel

Gabe Friedman
Published March 5, 2015

Nisman’s ex-wife: Late AMIA prosecutor was murdered

Gabe Friedman
Published March 5, 2015

Bibi’s speech, the remix

Gabe Friedman
Published March 5, 2015

Ruderman Family Foundation launches fourth annual Jewish inclusion competition

Gabe Friedman
Published March 5, 2015

Yaniv Sadka gets teens involved in the fight against cancer

Gabe Friedman
Published March 5, 2015

From The Onion to Daily Show, a roundup of Speechgate satire

Gabe Friedman
Published March 4, 2015

LIVE: Netanyahu’s address to Congress

Gabe Friedman
Published March 3, 2015

Forbes’ billionaires list features new and old Jewish faces

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2015

LIVE: Netanyahu speaking at the AIPAC policy conference

Gabe Friedman
Published March 2, 2015

From the Archive: Israel’s impressive losing record at the Oscars

Gabe Friedman
Published March 1, 2015

UCLA student government member questioned about Jewish identity

Gabe Friedman
Published February 27, 2015

WATCH: Leonard Nimoy explains Spock’s salute

Gabe Friedman
Published February 27, 2015

WATCH: Leonard Nimoy explains Spock’s salute

Gabe Friedman
Published February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy, actor who played Spock on ‘Star Trek,’ dead at 83

Gabe Friedman
Published February 27, 2015

Q&A with Jorma Kaukonen on Jefferson Airplane and Judaism

Gabe Friedman
Published February 27, 2015

At Streit’s 90-year-old Lower East Side factory, ‘the men’ turn out their last matzah batch

Gabe Friedman
Published February 25, 2015

Amnesty Int’l: Israel and Hamas committed war crimes

Gabe Friedman
Published February 25, 2015

German Jewish magazine will deliver copies in blank envelopes to hide publication’s name

Gabe Friedman
Published February 25, 2015

Columbia tops conservative group’s list of colleges with ‘worst anti-Semitic activity’

Gabe Friedman
Published February 24, 2015

Doing downward dog in Ramallah

Gabe Friedman
Published February 24, 2015

Can exotic flavors bring back SodaStream’s fizz?

Gabe Friedman
Published February 23, 2015

The Star of David myth and the World War II rescue of Danish Jewry

Gabe Friedman
Published February 21, 2015

French chief rabbi rejects Netanyahu’s call for emigration

Gabe Friedman
Published February 20, 2015

French chief rabbi rejects Netanyahu’s call for emigration

Gabe Friedman
Published February 20, 2015

Ewan McGregor to direct adaptation of Philip Roth’s ‘American Pastoral’

Gabe Friedman
Published February 19, 2015

Gaza hackers use porn in cyberattack on Israeli institutions

Gabe Friedman
Published February 18, 2015

VIDEO: What happens when an Orthodox man wanders through Paris

Gabe Friedman
Published February 17, 2015

Philip Levine, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 87

Gabe Friedman
Published February 17, 2015

Organizer of anti-Semitic rally in London arrested for abusive tweets

Gabe Friedman
Published February 17, 2015

Jewish gravestones desecrated in New Zealand

Gabe Friedman
Published February 17, 2015

Beware the Holocaust-themed selfie

Gabe Friedman
Published February 17, 2015

AP report: Majority of Gaza war airstrike fatalities civilians

Gabe Friedman
Published February 13, 2015

AP report: Majority of Gaza war airstrike fatalities civilians

Gabe Friedman
Published February 13, 2015

‘Shamor L’Amour’ guide seeks to foster healthy romantic relationships

Gabe Friedman
Published February 13, 2015

Miami Jewish day schooler to play Division I soccer

Gabe Friedman
Published February 12, 2015

Jon Stewart’s Jewiest moments

Gabe Friedman
Published February 11, 2015

Proposed congressional bill links BDS prevention, EU trade deal

Gabe Friedman
Published February 10, 2015

ADL to Urban Outfitters: Remove tapestry with Nazi-type design

Gabe Friedman
Published February 10, 2015

Pew survey: Europe’s Jewish population has plummeted in recent decades

Gabe Friedman
Published February 10, 2015

From the Archive: Life in the ‘Shanghai Ghetto’

Gabe Friedman
Published February 8, 2015

When Gawker trolled Coca-Cola with ‘Mein Kampf’ messages

Gabe Friedman
Published February 7, 2015

Head of New York Jewish legal aid group resigns over financial scandal

Gabe Friedman
Published February 6, 2015

VIDEO: Jon Stewart doesn’t think the ‘Bibi-sitter’ is very funny

Gabe Friedman
Published February 6, 2015

Making Room on the Bench for students with disabilities

Gabe Friedman
Published February 5, 2015

Yeshiva U. nearing deal to hand over control of medical school

Gabe Friedman
Published February 4, 2015

Study: Seattle’s Jewish population soared 70 percent since 2001

Gabe Friedman
Published February 3, 2015

Study: Seattle’s Jewish population soared 70 percent since 2001

Gabe Friedman
Published February 3, 2015

French firm denies responsibility for ‘if possible not Jewish’ job ad

Gabe Friedman
Published February 3, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz takes back critique of intermarriage

Gabe Friedman
Published February 3, 2015

Is the Patriots’ Julian Edelman Jewish?

Gabe Friedman
Published February 2, 2015

The kosher Super Bowl halftime show

Gabe Friedman
Published January 30, 2015

Hezbollah chief says group is not afraid of war with Israel

Gabe Friedman
Published January 30, 2015

Hezbollah chief says group is not afraid of war with Israel

Gabe Friedman
Published January 30, 2015

Tom Brady has a menorah

Gabe Friedman
Published January 29, 2015

Some Argentine Jews aim to revoke foreign minister’s AMIA membership

Gabe Friedman
Published January 28, 2015
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