Marcy Oster Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

jta
Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

Critics accuse Gal Gadot of cultural appropriation for accepting Cleopatra role

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2020

Israeli army opens two coronavirus wards for civilians in Rambam Hospital in Haifa

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2020

Israeli lawmaker infected with COVID-19 accused of violating lockdown rules

Marcy Oster
Published October 6, 2020

Eli Rozenberg, 26-year-old son of millionaire US businessman, takes control of El Al airlines

Marcy Oster
Published October 6, 2020

Project to help struggling Israeli music industry produces covers of 50 classic Israeli songs

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020

Jewish researcher shares Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying hepatitis C virus

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020

Richard Schifter, Holocaust survivor who later served as a US diplomat, dies at 97

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020

Rabbis pray at Western Wall for Trump’s recovery

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020

New York City to shut down 9 neighborhoods, many with large Orthodox populations, due to COVID case spike

Marcy Oster
Published October 4, 2020

Student, soldier, doctor, teacher: How my family sits at the intersection of Israel’s COVID-19 crisis

Marcy Oster
Published October 2, 2020

Israel delivers first Iron Dome defense system to the US Army

Marcy Oster
Published September 30, 2020

Israel limits public protest during coronavirus lockdown

Marcy Oster
Published September 30, 2020

Congress members join global task force to combat online anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published September 29, 2020

1,000 attend Yom Kippur service at minor league ballpark in New Jersey

Marcy Oster
Published September 29, 2020

Israel has more per capita deaths from the coronavirus each day than US

Marcy Oster
Published September 29, 2020

U of Illinois student government passes pro-Black Lives Matter resolution with call to divest from Israel

Marcy Oster
Published September 29, 2020

Joe Biden likens Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels

Marcy Oster
Published September 27, 2020

Israel ushers in Yom Kippur with record COVID cases, tight restrictions and government apologies

Marcy Oster
Published September 27, 2020

Editor resigns at Miami Herald’s Spanish-language newspaper over publication of anti-Semitic, racist column

Marcy Oster
Published September 27, 2020

French interior minister vows protection for synagogues on Yom Kippur after terror attack

Marcy Oster
Published September 27, 2020

Israel has nearly 7,000 violations of national lockdown over Rosh Hashanah

Marcy Oster
Published September 21, 2020

2 UPenn kosher chefs lost their jobs because of COVID. Now they’re opening a kosher food truck to help the needy.

Marcy Oster
Published September 21, 2020

Mandy Patinkin blows shofar in TV tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish

Marcy Oster
Published September 21, 2020

New York will erect statue in Brooklyn to honor RBG

Marcy Oster
Published September 21, 2020

Israel officially signs peace treaties with UAE and Bahrain in White House ceremony

Marcy Oster
Published September 15, 2020

Israelis prepare for a second national lockdown to prevent spread of the coronavirus

Marcy Oster
Published September 14, 2020

Jessica Krug, who faked an Afro-Latina identity, resigns from George Washington University

Marcy Oster
Published September 10, 2020

Dean Kremer, first Israeli drafted into the Major Leagues, notches a win in Orioles pitching debut

Marcy Oster
Published September 7, 2020

Curfews imposed as Israel logs more than 1,000 coronavirus dead and world’s highest infection rate

Marcy Oster
Published September 6, 2020

As Biden meets with Jacob Blake’s family, right-wing media calls attention to father’s anti-Semitic Facebook posts

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2020

Israeli-American citizen can be extradited to US to face bank fraud charges, Israeli Supreme Court rules

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2020

Jewish Federations of North America raising $54 million for coronavirus fund

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2020

Palestinian man arrested after infiltrating into Israel from Gaza carrying bomb and knife

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2020

Drone drops hundreds of bags of cannabis over Tel Aviv

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2020

Iran’s Khamenei singles out Jared Kushner as the ‘Jewish member of Trump’s family’ in tweet decrying ‘filthy Zionist agents’

Marcy Oster
Published September 2, 2020

Alleged pedophile Malka Leifer is mentally fit for extradition to Australia, Israel’s Supreme Court rules

Marcy Oster
Published September 2, 2020

Haredi Orthodox Jews barred from entering Ukraine for annual Uman pilgrimage

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020

Israeli firefighters arrive in California to help battle wildfires

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020

Israeli government approves coronavirus plan with restrictions based on cities’ infection rates

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020

Sheldon Adelson close to buying US ambassador’s residence in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020

Biden campaign platform for Arab Americans reiterates opposition to BDS movement

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020

Anti-Netanyahu protests swell yet again, with Hasidic Uman pilgrimage hopefuls joining the crowds

Marcy Oster
Published August 30, 2020

Arnold Spielberg, who helped son Steven make his first movie, dies at 103

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2020

Amar’e Stoudemire finishes his conversion to Judaism

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2020

Israel strikes Hezbollah posts in retaliation for attack from Lebanon on border patrol

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2020

Jewish man, 39, killed in Palestinian stabbing attack in Tel Aviv suburb

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2020

Fire causes significant damage at University of Delaware’s Chabad center

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2020

British-Israeli woman sues EasyJet over requests to give up her seat for haredi men on 2 separate flights

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

British rapper Wiley repeats tropes about Jewish power and money in new interview

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

Hoard of 9th-century gold Islamic coins found buried in central Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

Bomb threat left on voicemail of Virginia synagogue

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

British renters’ union rejects membership for Jewish applicant saying ‘sorry, no time for Zionists’

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

Holocaust survivor fulfills dream of receiving a high school diploma

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2020

Crushed rocks in New York utility road may have come from Jewish gravestones, report says

Marcy Oster
Published August 24, 2020

Ban on non-Israelis entering the country extended through Oct. 1

Marcy Oster
Published August 24, 2020

Doctor who tweeted that she would give Jews the wrong medications loses Ohio medical certificate

Marcy Oster
Published August 24, 2020

Netanyahu delays threat of another Israeli election with budget compromise

Marcy Oster
Published August 23, 2020

Thousands of Israelis strike to protest violence against women in wake of alleged gang rape of 16-year-old

Marcy Oster
Published August 23, 2020

In a first, an Israeli will race in the Tour de France

Marcy Oster
Published August 20, 2020

Orthodox runner, Israeli mother of 5, hires attorney in bid to move Olympics marathon from Saturday

Marcy Oster
Published August 19, 2020

Stabbed Israeli border guard shoots to death his Palestinian attacker in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2020

Ukraine and Israel, in joint statement, urge pilgrims to Uman to stay home this Rosh Hashanah

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2020

Trump tells rally he moved embassy to Jerusalem ‘for the evangelicals’

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2020

250,000 new immigrants will arrive in Israel in next 5 years, Jewish Agency estimates

Marcy Oster
Published August 17, 2020

Facebook algorithms promote Holocaust denial content, think tank report finds

Marcy Oster
Published August 17, 2020