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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.

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All content by Marcy Oster

Critics accuse Gal Gadot of cultural appropriation for accepting Cleopatra role

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2020
The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps will staff two wards of coronavirus parients at Rambam Hospital in Haifa in the underground parking complex that transforms into hospital wards that are reinforced against bomb attacks. (Courtesy of Rambam Health Care Campus)  

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
(Screenshot from YouTube) 

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

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020
Dr. Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in medicine for identifying hepatitis C virus

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

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020
Richard Schifter. Photo: American Jewish International Relations Institute (http://ajiri.us/)

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

Marcy Oster
Published October 5, 2020
Israeli chief rabbis pray for President Trump in Jerusalem, Oct. 5, 2020. (Screen shot from YouTube) 

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
Troy Harris in front of his Grassroots kosher food truck. (Joseph Kaczmarek) 

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 a shofar next to his wife Kathryn Grody on MSNBC. (Screen shot) 

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, seen here testifying in a June New York City Council hearing, announced that she had adopted an Afro-Latina identity despite growing up in a white Jewish family. (Screenshot)

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
Bags of marijuana litter the street in Tel Aviv. (Israel Police)  

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
Jewish men walk down a street in the Pushkin area of Uman, Ukraine on ‎Sept. ‎9, ‎2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Haredi Orthodox Jews barred from entering Ukraine for annual Uman pilgrimage

Marcy Oster
Published August 31, 2020
A fire in Napa County as seen from Middletown in Lake County, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020. (Jade May)

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/Instagram)

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
Some of the gold coins discovered in an archaeological excavation during the construction of a neighborhood in the center of Israel. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

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
Miriam Schreiber speaks after being presented with an honorary diploma at the New England Jewish Academy in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 16, 2020. (Screenshot from YouTube) 

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
Travelers at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in 2018. 

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
Israelis take part in a demonstration in Jerusalem in support of the 16-year-old victim of an alleged gang rape in Eilat, Aug. 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
Guy Niv was primarily a mountain biker and had little experience in road racing. (Noa Arnon) 

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

Marcy Oster
Published August 20, 2020
Beatie Deutsch wrote that her atypical story of an Olympic athlete puts her in a position of role model, especially for women. (Instagram)

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
Jeiwsh Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog, left, and President Reuven Rivlin meet at a Jerusalem ulpan, Aug. 16, 2020. (Mark Neyman/GPO) 

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
Tehila Friedman, a new member of the Knesset from the Blue and White party, has captured Israelis' attention after her first speech as a lawmaker. (Screenshot) 

This speech by Tehila Friedman, a new Knesset member, has Israelis fired up about political moderation

Marcy Oster
Published August 17, 2020

YouTube removes rapper Wiley’s channel over ‘repeated violations’

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020

Critics say Netflix series ‘The Umbrella Academy’ promotes anti-Semitic stereotype through Yiddish scene

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020

4 men arrested for hanging ‘Hitler Was Right’ banner on bridge in Arizona

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020
National Library of Israel in Jerusalem (Herzog & de Meuron; Mann-Shinar Architects) 

National Library of Israel to suspend services and put 300 workers on unpaid leave

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020

Programs to facilitate pandemic weddings in Israel’s 2 largest cities reflect tension around marriage rules

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020

Israeli government approves $75 million bid for major stake in El Al Airlines to son of millionaire US businessman

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2020

Jewish and Black historical cemeteries vandalized in Virginia with Nazi symbol

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2020
Al Pacino, left, and Logan Lerman are Jews out for revenge in Amazon Studios' "Hunters." Photo: Christopher Saunders

Amazon renews ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino’s Nazi-hunting drama, for second season

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2020

Larry Johnson, former Kansas City Chiefs running back, tweets anti-Semitic tropes

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2020

Israeli army says it thwarted attack on Syrian border by infiltrators who planted explosives

Marcy Oster
Published August 3, 2020

White House criticizes Twitter for censoring Trump and not Iran’s Khamenei over destroying Israel posts

Marcy Oster
Published August 3, 2020
Israeli yeshiva students are separated by plastic barriers to insure that social distancing measures imposed by Israeli authorities are being respected, in Tel Aviv on July 7, 2020. 

As Israel expects 16,000 US students, COVID-19 czar warns that rule-breakers will be deported

Marcy Oster
Published August 2, 2020

Facebook reports increased ad revenue even as ADL-led boycott reduced spending: Report

Marcy Oster
Published August 2, 2020
About 150 Israelis joined a protest in San Francisco Saturday in solidarity with the sweeping anti-government protests in Israel. (Courtesy of Rachel Batish)

Israelis in US join anti-Netanyahu protests as sweeping rallies take place at home

Marcy Oster
Published August 2, 2020

State Department report assesses progress in Holocaust property restitution in 46 countries

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a nonsurgical procedure and will stay in hospital through end of week

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2020
The iconic sculpture by Robert Indiana at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem says "ahava," or "love" in Hebrew. (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Collection; Photo copyright by Avishai Teicher) 

Israel Museum in Jerusalem to reopen with $4 million grant from US supporters

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2020

Chicago Tribune demotes columnist for blaming George Soros for violent protests

Marcy Oster
Published July 29, 2020

Minnesota Republicans acknowledge board member posted meme comparing mask mandate to Holocaust’s yellow star

Marcy Oster
Published July 29, 2020

Twitter permanently suspends British rapper Wiley over tweets seen as anti-Semitic

Marcy Oster
Published July 29, 2020

Republican senator from Georgia runs campaign ad showing Jewish challenger Jon Ossoff with elongated nose

Marcy Oster
Published July 28, 2020

Balloons carrying rocket explosive lands in southern Israel

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

West Bank mosque vandalized and set ablaze

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

US Joint Chiefs of Staff chair makes unannounced visit to Israel amid escalating tensions in Middle East

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

Israeli army says it thwarted Hezbollah infiltrators from Lebanon

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust victims uncovered in 2 basements in Ukraine

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020
Shoppers at a Walmart in Marshall, Minn., wearing Nazi swastika masks, July 25, 2020. (Screenshot) 

Couple wearing swastika masks at Walmart in Minnesota confronted by other shoppers

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

International Olympics Committee removes tweeted video celebrating 1936 Berlin Olympics

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020

Florida man will be charged with vandalism of 2 Reform synagogues in Sarasota

Marcy Oster
Published July 27, 2020
StopAntisemitism.org was one of dozens of accounts to call attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labeling of tefillin in its collection. (Twitter)

Twitter debate ensues after Metropolitan Museum of Art labels tefillin as Egyptian amulet

Marcy Oster
Published July 26, 2020

Rapper Jay Electronica calls rabbi who spoke with Nick Cannon a liar and a ‘devil’

Marcy Oster
Published July 26, 2020

At least 5,000 protest Netanyahu’s handling of the coronavirus crisis in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published July 26, 2020

Philadelphia NAACP head faces calls to resign after briefly posting anti-Semitic meme on Facebook

Marcy Oster
Published July 26, 2020

British lecturer fired for making racist claims, including that Jews are ‘the cleverest in the world’

Marcy Oster
Published July 23, 2020
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