Gabrielle Birkner Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s ‘lower guilt’ latkes

Gabrielle Birkner
Published December 8, 2022

Celebrating Shabbat in Poway, a week after the deadly shooting

Gabrielle Birkner
Published May 6, 2019

Poway mayor: post-Pittsburgh precautions saved lives

Gabrielle Birkner
Published April 28, 2019

Los Angeles fire races through the heart of a Jewish community

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 14, 2018

Separated by the Holocaust, old friends find each other 76 years later

Gabrielle Birkner
Published April 13, 2018

Marvin Hier says he’s ‘proud’ to be Trump’s inauguration rabbi

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 5, 2017

‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ is inspiration at Jewish charity benefit

Gabrielle Birkner
Published August 8, 2016

From the JTA archives: 50 years of covering Elie Wiesel

Gabrielle Birkner
Published July 2, 2016

Years after raid, Postville, Iowa’s Jewish community is smaller, more self-reliant

Gabrielle Birkner
Published February 2, 2016

Op-Ed: Kotel compromise shows Israelis know they need American Jews

Gabrielle Birkner
Published February 2, 2016

What Pope Francis synagogue visit says about Catholic-Jewish relations

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 15, 2016

Samantha Power poses tough questions for Israelis and Palestinians

Gabrielle Birkner
Published December 13, 2015

Op-Ed: Inclusion is not for everyone

Gabrielle Birkner
Published December 2, 2015

For Jimmy Carter’s chief of staff, being Jewish was a family secret

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 25, 2015

For Jimmy Carter’s chief of staff, being Jewish was a family secret

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 25, 2015

Jennifer Gorovitz, former SF federation CEO, will join New Israel Fund

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 24, 2015

Aly Raisman: 5 things to know about the once (and future?) Olympian

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 19, 2015

Jewish Federations confab focuses on healing after Iran rancor

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 10, 2015

’70s sitcom king Norman Lear on making TV that breaks ground

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 5, 2015

What Jews with disabilities can teach the rest of us

Gabrielle Birkner
Published November 3, 2015

What the Klinghoffers taught me — and the world

Gabrielle Birkner
Published October 20, 2015

Comity, foreign policy differences are hallmarks of Democratic debate

Gabrielle Birkner
Published October 13, 2015

On Greek isle of Rhodes, Jews return to celebrate ancient community all but wiped out

Gabrielle Birkner
Published August 17, 2015

Meet the ‘RaBBi-Q’ — Kansas City’s kosher BBQ star

Gabrielle Birkner
Published August 10, 2015

At Berlin’s European Maccabi Games, the past is ever-present

Gabrielle Birkner
Published July 30, 2015

Artists’ shrapnel playground excluded from museum’s Tisha B’Av event

Gabrielle Birkner
Published July 24, 2015

Amid their country’s financial crisis, Greek Jews struggle and brace for more turmoil

Gabrielle Birkner
Published July 6, 2015

Rochelle Shoretz, whose cancer battle inspired her activism, dies at 42

Gabrielle Birkner
Published June 2, 2015

Rochelle Shoretz, Sharsheret founder and cancer advocate, is dead at 42

Gabrielle Birkner
Published May 31, 2015

Should Random House pay Goebbels’ estate?

Gabrielle Birkner
Published April 20, 2015

These 5 new Haggadahs are keepers

Gabrielle Birkner
Published March 29, 2015

Haggadah collection includes pop-up books, world’s tiniest seder guide

Gabrielle Birkner
Published March 29, 2015

Reform rabbinic group installs its first openly gay president

Gabrielle Birkner
Published March 17, 2015

Full video and text: Netanyahu’s speech to Congress

Gabrielle Birkner
Published March 3, 2015

Behind those pointy ears, a ‘nice, earnest Jewish boy’

Gabrielle Birkner
Published March 2, 2015

Jewish day school teacher busted on child porn charges

Gabrielle Birkner
Published February 2, 2015

Adas Israel rabbi: ‘I am a gay man’

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 28, 2015

Behind every great ‘Serial’ podcast host, a Jewish studies professor

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 28, 2015

French Jewry 101: From Rashi to Dreyfus to Hyper Cacher

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 28, 2015

French Jewry 101: From Rashi to Dreyfus to Hyper Cacher

Gabrielle Birkner
Published January 13, 2015

‘Ida’ makes Oscars shortlist

Gabrielle Birkner
Published December 20, 2014

Behind every great ‘Serial’ podcast host, a Jewish studies professor

Gabrielle Birkner
Published December 19, 2014

Adas Israel rabbi: ‘I am a gay man’

Gabrielle Birkner
Published October 6, 2014

At Canada’s new human rights museum, should the Holocaust get special treatment?

Gabrielle Birkner
Published September 18, 2014

Amid neo-Nazi surge, Jewish groups applaud Greece’s Holocaust denial ban

Gabrielle Birkner
Published September 11, 2014