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
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light
All content by Marcy Oster

This Panoramic Sukkah re-creates Jerusalem in your backyard

Marcy Oster
Published September 26, 2017

Haredi Orthodox man allegedly attacked for being Jewish in Antwerp

Marcy Oster
Published September 4, 2017

Billy Joel wears yellow Star of David during concert encore

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2017

Mocha milkshake travels 400 miles to give hospice patient a last wish

Marcy Oster
Published August 2, 2017

Case of EU official who shouted anti-Semitic hate speech lands in Brussels court

Marcy Oster
Published June 13, 2017

Michelle Obama to speak at New York synagogue’s adult education center

Marcy Oster
Published June 13, 2017

Dutch national jailed in Ireland for praising ISIS, threatening to behead Jews

Marcy Oster
Published June 1, 2017

There’s a $149 deal on flights to Israel? Don’t believe the hype.

Marcy Oster
Published May 18, 2017
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein was on target for a second time with his ceremonial first pitch for the Mets. (Courtesy of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun)

Ivanka Trump’s rabbi throws out first pitch at New York Mets game

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2017

Princeton Center for Jewish Life denies space for Breaking the Silence exhibit

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2017

Jewish and Arab Israelis do not want to live in same neighborhoods, survey finds

Marcy Oster
Published April 20, 2017

Did Ivanka Trump skip Easter at the White House because she’s Jewish?

Marcy Oster
Published April 18, 2017

Israel Aerospace Industries signs arms contracts with India worth nearly $2 billion

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Groups provide Passover assistance to Jewish needy in Israel, former Soviet Union

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Jerusalem mayor cancels SF State ‘healing’ lecture, says university aids in demonizing Israel

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Yad Vashem head calls for end to Syrian civil war and its ‘atrocities’

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Hamas hangs three accused of collaborating with Israel’s military in Gaza

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Israeli soldier killed in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

Florida legislature committees vote to allocate funds for Jewish school security

Marcy Oster
Published April 6, 2017

German government pays $1.28 million to heir of Nazi-looted painting

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017

Israeli lawmaker marries abroad to avoid involving Chief Rabbinate

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017

Stephen Bannon removed from National Security Council

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017

Britney Spears concert spurs postponement of Labor party leadership vote

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017

Texas prison inmate drops kosher food lawsuit

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017

Ex-mayor of small Guatemalan town jailed for expelling haredi sect

Marcy Oster
Published April 5, 2017
Bnei Menashe brides, grooms and guests at a wedding in Kfar Hasidim, Israel. (Laura Ben-David/Shavei Israel)

10 Indian-Jewish ‘lost tribe’ couples remarried in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Fugitive rabbi in Israeli prison for sexual assault released early for cancer treatments

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Court rules professors can sue American Studies Association over academic boycott of Israel

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Ohio buys record $61 million in Israel Bonds

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

High school assignment debating Holocaust pulled, banned in upstate NY school district

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Netanyahu, Israeli lawmakers call for removal of Syrian chemical weapons

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Most Jewish British students say they have been targeted for their religion, study finds

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

2 Border Police officers indicted for assaulting Arab man they thought was terrorist

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Father of teen accused of JCC bomb threats apologizes to Jews of the U.S.

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2017

Singapore deporting imam who spoke against Jews, Christians

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Israel sends condolences, support to Russia following deadly subway bombing

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Students at Toronto university vote to adopt broad definition of anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Rasmea Odeh, Linda Sarsour slam ‘Zionists’ at Jewish Voice for Peace summit

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Jared Kushner in Iraq for update on fight against ISIS

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Jewish center in Sweden decides to close after anti-Semitic threats

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Jewish foundation, Israeli government distribute 2 millionth free book to Arab-Israeli preschoolers

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2017

Visiting Israeli lawmakers discuss U.S.-Israel relationship with Boston audience

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, best known for work “Babi Yar, dies at 84

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Bob Dylan gets his Nobel diploma and gold medal in small Stockholm ceremony

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

David’s Sling missile defense system enters service in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Mother of teen accused of JCC bomb threats: Autism, brain tumor drove son’s behavior

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Hundreds of Jewish protesters march against Israeli control of West Bank

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Report: U.S.-Israel talks on settlements suspended after no progress made

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

3 stabbed, Palestinian assailant killed in Jerusalem stabbing attack

Marcy Oster
Published April 2, 2017

Israel averts government crisis with compromise on public broadcaster

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

St. Louis man accused of 8 bomb threats on JCCs, ADL to remain in jail

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

Teen suspect in JCC bomb threats must stay in custody another week, Israeli court rules

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

2 British teens fined by Polish court for stealing Auschwitz artifacts

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

Fliers accusing Jews of creating anti-Semitic hoaxes dropped in Arizona

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

Swastika, graffiti found at Connecticut high school

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

Boy, 13, charged in Philadelphia synagogue vandalism

Marcy Oster
Published March 30, 2017

For first time, Diaspora Jew to light one of Israel’s Independence Day torches

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

230 new immigrants arrive in Israel from Ukraine

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Defense Ministry won’t sanction yeshiva over leader’s comments on female soldiers

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Palestinian woman killed during attempted stabbing attack in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Israel and Nicaragua to re-establish diplomatic ties

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017
A sign for the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania (Wikimedia Commons)

Reconstructionist rabbis affirm full inclusion of transgender, gender-fluid Jews

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Bob Dylan to accept his Nobel Prize in Stockholm

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Thousands of haredi Orthodox men protest military draft in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Britney Spears concert tickets go on sale in Israel hours after concert announced

Marcy Oster
Published March 29, 2017

Restoration of vandalized Philadelphia Jewish cemetery begins

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone defends himself against anti-Semitism accusations

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Paraguay to require more humane ways of kosher slaughter

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Bar Refaeli is pregnant with 2nd child

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Natan Meir, whose wife was killed in a terror attack in their home, announces engagement

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Pre-military yeshiva head acknowledges his comments on female soldiers ‘inappropriate’

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2017

Swastikas, racist graffiti discovered on Phoenix high school

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who earned doctorate 80 years after Nazis’ denial, dies at 104

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Teen apologizes for twisting family menorah into swastika

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Senate committee to question Jared Kushner over Russia ties

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Israel Police arrest 22 haredi Orthodox men accused of sex crimes

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Attack against soldier in the West Bank foiled

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Israel’s president denies pardon to former prime minister Ehud Olmert

Marcy Oster
Published March 27, 2017

Iran imposes sanctions on 15 U.S. companies over support for Israel

Marcy Oster
Published March 26, 2017

Hamas closes border between Israel and Gaza

Marcy Oster
Published March 26, 2017

Report: Boris Epshteyn, overseer of Trump press surrogates, leaving post

Marcy Oster
Published March 26, 2017

Dallas JCC evacuated over threatening phone call

Marcy Oster
Published March 26, 2017

Arkansas legislature passes law prohibiting deals with companies that boycott Israel

Marcy Oster
Published March 26, 2017

New York man admits he groped woman on Israel-New Jersey flight

Marcy Oster
Published March 24, 2017

Israeli police officer suspended after attacking Palestinian truck driver over fender bender

Marcy Oster
Published March 23, 2017

Jewish groups, including those targeted, welcome arrest of bomb threat suspect

Marcy Oster
Published March 23, 2017

9 Venezuelan converts arrive in Israel to start aliyah process

Marcy Oster
Published March 23, 2017

Second Montreal mosque hosts imam calling for death of Jews

Marcy Oster
Published March 23, 2017

Israeli-American teen arrested in Israel for JCC bomb threats

Marcy Oster
Published March 23, 2017

Barry Shrage, longtime CEO of Boston Jewish federation, announces retirement

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

Australia finds no evidence World Vision funds went to Hamas

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

Hundreds of liquor bottles from WWI British soldiers uncovered in central Israel

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

Connecticut church shows support for threatened local Jewish institutions

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

Family of missing CIA consultant Robert Livinson sues Iran in US court

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

New Jersey synagogue, preschool evacuated after called-in threat

Marcy Oster
Published March 22, 2017

Anne Frank House, Facebook partner on chat-bot with teenage diarist

Marcy Oster
Published March 21, 2017

Report: Lawmaker plans database of Israeli citizens supporting BDS

Marcy Oster
Published March 21, 2017

Ivanka Trump scores West Wing office, government security clearances

Marcy Oster
Published March 21, 2017

7th-century bronze coins found in excavations before widening Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway

Marcy Oster
Published March 20, 2017

Britney Spears reportedly to perform Tel Aviv concert in July

Marcy Oster
Published March 20, 2017
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