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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 Marcy Oster

Homeland Security working with Jewish communities following bomb threats

Marcy Oster
Published March 2, 2017

Israel’s AG won’t defend outpost legalization law

Marcy Oster
Published March 2, 2017

Rocket fired from Gaza explodes on Ashkelon beach

Marcy Oster
Published March 2, 2017

Israeli immigrant who converted to Islam indicted for trying to join ISIS

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Jewish Museum in London evacuated by bomb threat

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Demolition of 9 homes in Ofra settlement begins following evacuation

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Natan Sharansky: Anti-Semitism of far right, anti-Israelism of radical left no different

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Palestinian intruder shot dead by his Israeli stabbing victim in West Bank

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Amar’e Stoudemire makes homophobic comments to Israeli news website

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Gunshot fired through window of Indiana synagogue

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Keith Ellison calls on AG to investigate cemetery desecration as hate crime

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Muslim students in Florida send flowers to Jewish organizations

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

University of Texas Hillel vandalized

Marcy Oster
Published March 1, 2017

Report on 2014 Gaza War slams Netanyahu, military leadership

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Natan Sharansky agrees to stay an extra year as Jewish Agency chief

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Amar’e Stoudemire recognized with Martin Luther King Jr. Award in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Record $1.1 billion in Israel Bonds sold in US in 2016

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

St. Louis suburb considering anti-hate-crime resolution

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Jews come out in force to support arsoned Tampa mosque $18 at a time

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Philadelphia labor unions offer to repair, secure vandalized Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published February 28, 2017

Man convicted of assaulting head of Brooklyn Jewish Y chief fled to Turkey

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Jewish Federations chairman endorses David Friedman for Israel envoy

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

More than 200 Israelis attend funeral of Holocaust survivor they did not know

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Israeli retaliatory airstrikes target Hamas positions in Gaza

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Bomb threats hit at least 8 JCCs, Jewish day schools across country

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Israeli Jew who thought he was stabbing an Arab sentenced to 11 years in prison

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Swastikas scratched into cars in Jewish neighborhood of Miami Beach

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

More than 1,500 people interested in living in Israel attend aliyah event

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

ADL offers reward for information about Philadelphia Jewish cemetery vandals

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Hundreds of yeshiva, seminary students attempt to disrupt Women of the Wall service

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

‘Moonlight’ named Best Picture at Academy Awards after ‘La La Land’ mix-up

Marcy Oster
Published February 27, 2017

Dozens of headstones overturned at Philadelphia Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Joseph Wapner, retired judge who starred on “The People’s Court,” dies at 97

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

NBA’s Omri Casspi waived by New Orleans Pelicans after broken thumb

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Yad Vashem calls on Amazon to stop selling books denying the Holocaust

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Swastika made of feces found at Rhode Island school

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Montana House advances bill prohibiting state from businesses that boycott Israel

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Report: Trump administration considering pulling out of UN Human Rights Council

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Swastikas, racial slurs spray painted on cars, building, school playground near Buffalo

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Anti-Semitic vandalism discovered at Drake University

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Natalie Portman will not attend Academy Awards due to pregnancy

Marcy Oster
Published February 26, 2017

Australia reaffirms ties to Israel as Netanyahu wraps up historic visit

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Upgraded Iron Dome with US parts passes live fire tests

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Texas firm launching development of Israel’s massive gas field

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Israeli fighter jet downs Hamas drone

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Bomb threat forces evacuation of New Orleans JCC

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Arizona Jewish day school teacher resigns over anti-immigrant tweets

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Keith Ellison, in run-up to DNC chair election, calls for party to fight anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Ex-Israeli chief rabbi gets 4 1/2 years in prison for fraud after judge rejects plea deal

Marcy Oster
Published February 23, 2017

Bedouin teacher did not commit terror attack, Israeli investigation reportedly finds

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

North Carolina Jewish school evacuated after bomb threat

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

ADL headquarters in NY hit with bomb threat

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Stolen Dachau front gate reading ‘Work makes you free’ returned to site

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Author JK Rowling helps boost Muslim campaign to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

JCC near San Diego evacuated after emailed bomb threat

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Dublin college apologizes after protesters cancel speech by Israeli ambassador

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Waze puts early morning drivers to Jerusalem in a (traffic) jam

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Knesset decides not to alter parliamentary dress code, just enforcement

Marcy Oster
Published February 22, 2017

Jewish governor of Missouri, Muslim activists pitching in to repair vandalized Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Neo-Nazi rally held in Bulgarian capital despite municipal ban

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Egypt and Jordan: Don’t give up on two-state solution

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Wiesenthal Center calls for task force to catch callers making JCC bomb threats

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

NJ yeshiva’s alumni, staff implore graduate Jared Kushner to help halt refugee ban

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

After much prodding, Trump condemns anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Jewish groups call on Trump to condemn JCC bomb threats, anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Muslim civil rights group offers $5,000 reward for information on JCC bomb threats

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Israeli soldier who shot downed Palestinian terrorist sentenced to 18 months in prison

Marcy Oster
Published February 21, 2017

Bomb threats called in to at least 10 JCCs in fourth round of harassment

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

San Francisco supervisor wants mayor to apologize for comparing him to ‘Gestapo’

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

Arab-Israeli man arrested for allegedly plotting Tel Aviv bus attack for ISIS

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

NBA’s Omri Casspi to be traded to New Orleans Pelicans

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

Netanyahu meets president, prime minister of Singapore in historic visit

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

Israel concerned about polarization of US society, Rivlin tells American Jewish leaders

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

Rockets fired on southern Israel from Sinai, ISIS claims responsibility

Marcy Oster
Published February 20, 2017

Austrian woman convicted under law that makes Holocaust denial illegal

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

Tennessee prison inmate sues for better kosher food

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

Report: Flynn, Trump transition team, tried to defeat UN anti-settlements resolution

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

21 Democratic Jewish House members call on Trump to observe religious freedom

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

Mattis, Liberman meet in Munich, agree to ‘continue close collaboration’

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

IKEA apologizes for woman-free catalogue catering to haredi Orthodox

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

Mike Pence visits site of Nazi camp Dachau

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

U of Minnesota student arrested for drawing swastika in dorm

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

U.S.-Israel alliance has become ‘even stronger,’ Netanyahu tells Cabinet

Marcy Oster
Published February 19, 2017

Boston-area high school principal turns to local synagogue after swastika discovered

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

Palestinian support for two-state solution drops, poll finds

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

100 units of blood flown from Israel to Peru for sick tourist

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

Japanese hotel chain gives guests inhouse magazine with anti-Semitic article

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

Report: Haredi Orthodox daughter of transgender woman shunned by classmates

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

5 former U.S. ambassadors to Israel say David Friedman unqualified

Marcy Oster
Published February 16, 2017

Palestinians blast Trump’s break with two-state policy

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

The Blue Card receives Jewish Federations grant of $120K to help Holocaust survivors

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Netanyahu calls for regional approach to making peace during appearance with Trump

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Haredi passengers refuse to sit next to women on Tel Aviv-London flight

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

New CIA head meets with Abbas in West Bank ahead of Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Pew: Jews are best-liked religious group in America

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Jewish Vermont college student dies after going missing while snowboarding

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Ransom for Israeli held in Arab country raised but not transfered

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

David Friedman, Trump’s pick for Israel envoy, expected to apologize for bashing liberal Jews ahead

Marcy Oster
Published February 15, 2017

Suspect convicted in 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz

Marcy Oster
Published February 14, 2017

Valentine’s Day survey: Most Jewish Israelis support civil marriage and divorce

Marcy Oster
Published February 14, 2017
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