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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 Jonathan S. Tobin
Students hold up anti-Israel signs and Palestinian flags at an pro-Hamas protest in front of Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, on Oct. 25, 2023. Credit: Kefr4000 via Wikimedia Commons.

Are American Jews still trying to save Israel from itself?

Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
Published February 27, 2024
Viktor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary, answers questions at the press conference at the federal chancellery in Berlin.

Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in a changing Europe

JONATHAN S. TOBIN, JNS
Published April 4, 2022
Is the West is selling out to Iran to lower gas prices?

Is the West is selling out to Iran to lower gas prices?

Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
Published March 12, 2022
A detailed view of the United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony ""75 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice"" on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the ending of the Second World War, and the ending of the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Remembrance Day rule that proves everyone loves dead Jews

Jonathan S. Tobin
Published January 26, 2022
Care about human rights? Demand a boycott of the Beijing Olympics!

Care about human rights? Demand a boycott of the Beijing Olympics!

JONATHAN S. TOBIN, JNS
Published November 20, 2021

The ‘human rights’ scam at the heart of the NGO controversy

JONATHAN S. TOBIN, JNS
Published October 26, 2021
The Jewish stake in resisting the war on school-board critics

The Jewish stake in resisting the war on school-board critics

JONATHAN S. TOBIN, JNS
Published October 16, 2021
sraeli artistic gymnast and gold medalist Artem Dolgopyat, Aug. 1, 2021. Source: Israel Olympic Committee via Facebook.

“Israel will claim my son’s Olympic gold but won’t let him marry here,” says athletes mother

Jonathan S. Tobin, The Jewish News Syndicate
Published August 9, 2021

A year with too much to mourn

Jonathan S. Tobin, JEWISH NEWS SERVICE
Published July 16, 2021
Search and rescue workers comb through the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium. Source: Miami-Dade Fire Rescue/Twitter.

In the face of disaster, the priority is help and prayer, not politics

Jonathan S. Tobin, JEWISH NEWS SERVICE
Published June 28, 2021
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