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All content by Lois Caplan
The new Covenant Place I building. 

Checking out Covenant Place’s impressive new building

Lois Caplan
Published October 13, 2016
 

Jewish Food Pantry turns 25

Lois Caplan
Published August 3, 2016
Volunteers help children pick out items at the 2014 Back-to-School Store! of the National Council of Jewsh Women-St. Louis Section.  File photo: Kristi Foster

Sing for Siteman, NCCJ awards and more

Lois Caplan
Published May 18, 2016

Honoring HateBrakers

Lois Caplan
Published April 13, 2016
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform the score of “E.T.” live during a screening of the film at Powell Hall on April 8-10. 

Meeting Andrew Rehfeld; E.T. at Powell Hall

Lois Caplan
Published March 23, 2016
Barbara Shuman

Honoring Barbara

Lois Caplan
Published February 17, 2016
Sheri Sherman (left) and Faith Berger (right) are co-chairs of a March 9 fundraiser for Midwest Children’s Burn Camp. At center is Allen Barber of Neiman Marcus, where the fundraiser will be held.

Burn camp and radio fundraisers

Lois Caplan
Published January 27, 2016
Amanda Sher

Lifelong Learning, Dorothy Firestone, Silver Ball and more

Lois Caplan
Published November 18, 2015
Earlier this month, New Line Theatre performed ‘Heathers,’ the theater group’s first production in its new performance space, the Marcelle Theatre, located at 3310 Samuel Shepard Drive in Grand Center.  Photo: Jill Ritter Lindberg

Checking out the Marcelle, Circus Harmony and more

Lois Caplan
Published October 28, 2015

Kibbitzing with Caplan

Lois Caplan
Published March 4, 2015
Ed Musen performs in Broadway Fantasies, a  volunteer group using  its love of music to raise money for charity.  The group’s upcoming performances mark its 25th anniversary. During those years, the group has raised more than $100,000 for local charities.

Hatebreakers Heroes Award/Broadway Fantasies Production

Lois Caplan
Published April 23, 2014
Columnist Lois Caplan

‘Next to Normal’; JCRC’s interfaith discussion

Lois Caplan
Published March 23, 2011
Columnist Lois Caplan

Ready Readers, the Florida Holocaust Museum, and ballet

Lois Caplan
Published February 2, 2011

Martin Luther King Jr., University of Carol, and Carnegie Coleslaw

Lois Caplan
Published January 5, 2011
‘Light’ Editor Ellen Futterman accepts the Press Club President’s Award for Meritorious Achievement in Journalism, which was awarded by Richard Weiss (right) to the Light, Futterman, and Publisher/CEO Larry Levin. Photo: William Greenblatt

Awards, shingles, and passionate readers

Lois Caplan
Published December 22, 2010
Columnist Lois Caplan

Sara Sitzer, Ida Orenstein, and nominations

Lois Caplan
Published December 15, 2010
Eliana Hentoff-Killian hangs from the trapeze at the circus ring at the City Museum in 2009 during the final show of the Galilee Arches — a combined troupe of the Galilee Circus from Israel and the St. Louis Arches. File Photo: Mike Sherwin

Archeology lecture; ADA 20 years later; Circus kudos

Lois Caplan
Published December 1, 2010
Richard and Linda Sher will be honored during the Arthritis Foundation of Eastern Missouri’s Silver Ball on Dec. 4.

The Silver Ball

Lois Caplan
Published November 24, 2010
The audience applauds at the 2009 'Music to Feed the Soul' concert at Shaare Zedek. This year's concert takes place Dec. 9 at BSKI.

Herbert Gralnick art sale; Music to feed the soul

Lois Caplan
Published October 27, 2010
Columnist Lois Caplan

IDF musical ensemble to perform at B’nai Amoona

Lois Caplan
Published October 6, 2010
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