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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

Moscow JCC renamed for JDC’s Ralph Goldman

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

Netanyahu vows to secure Jerusalem against terror, international ‘weakness’

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

U.S.-based Helmsley Trust awards Israeli institutions over $9 million

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

Jerusalem hosts challah bake as part of The Shabbos Project

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

Jewish BDS group protests Israeli dance troupe in Buenos Aires

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

Arab-Israeli soccer team fined for honoring ex-Knesset lawmaker

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

U.S. condemns Jerusalem terror attack

Marcy Oster
Published October 23, 2014

Palestinian-American student alleges anti-Muslim assault at Brooklyn arena

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Netanyahu slams Abbas over deadly rail attack in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

9 hurt in suspected terror attack on Jerusalem light rail

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Hagel, meeting with Yaalon, reaffirms U.S.-Israel defense relationship

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Delta flight reportedly delayed after haredim refuse to set next to opposite sex

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

NBC photographer with Jewish roots recovers from Ebola

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Shots reported fired from Egypt at Israeli troops

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

British youth soccer player charged for anti-Semitic taunts

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Ban says U.N. will investigate weaponry in its Gaza agencies

Marcy Oster
Published October 22, 2014

Netanyahu reportedly withdraws support for conversion bill

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Jerusalem elects two chief rabbis

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

White House: Nazi war criminals should not be receiving Social Security

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Mayor of Rome accompanying city’s high schoolers on Auschwitz trip

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Palestinians throw firebombs at Jewish-owned building in eastern Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Zionist leader Kalman Sultanik dies at 97

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Stone engraved to Roman emperor Hadrian discovered in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Syrian mortar hits Israeli Golan

Marcy Oster
Published October 21, 2014

Poll: Most Israeli Jews oppose Palestinian state on ’67 lines

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Jerusalem bus ads featuring young women in prayer shawls vandalized

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Some Beit Shemesh lawmakers eye splitting city into haredi and non-haredi entities

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Arab-Israeli team hails ex-Knesset lawmaker accused of treason

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Heirs to German Jews sue Swiss bank UBS to recover inheritance

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Amended charges have suspected JCC shooter facing possible death sentence

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Kosher butcher in Germany admits selling non-kosher meat for years

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Death of Joan Rivers was ‘predictable complication,’ medical examiner finds

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

No charges for British lawmaker George Galloway for ‘Israel-free zone’ comment

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Klain appointed U.S. Ebola response coordinator

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Man arrested in assault on Jewish leader in Brooklyn, won’t be charged with hate crime

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

More Jewish families move into eastern Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood

Marcy Oster
Published October 20, 2014

Yaalon heads to D.C. as Israeli gov’t ministers rip Kerry remarks

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Rivlin: Violence an epidemic in Israeli society

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Daughter of Hamas’ Haniyeh treated at Israeli hospital

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Palestinian girl dies after being hit by settler driver

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Argentine far-left leader gets prison term for threatening Jewish rally

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Israeli rowing team debuts in world’s largest event

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Temple Mount

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Pope Paul VI, first pontiff to visit Israel, is beatified, moves closer to sainthood

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Israeli-Arab doctor killed fighting for ISIS

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Ex-mayor Giuliani to lead protest against Met’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’

Marcy Oster
Published October 19, 2014

Palestinian boy, 13, killed by Israeli troops after throwing firebomb

Marcy Oster
Published October 17, 2014

Rabbi Avi Weiss to step down as rabbi of Hebrew Institute of Riverdale

Marcy Oster
Published October 17, 2014

Israel holds Ebola identification training exercise at Ben Gurion airport

Marcy Oster
Published October 17, 2014

‘British Oskar Schindler’ to receive Czech Republic’s highest honor

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

Israeli border policeman injured by rioters at Rachel’s Tomb

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg and wife pledge $25 million to fight Ebola

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

British lawmaker quit Parliament position to vote on Palestine motion

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

No leads after swastikas drawn on Yale dormitory steps

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

Temple Mount visits halted due to violence

Marcy Oster
Published October 15, 2014

Headstones used in Warsaw park returning to Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Israeli swimmers set open-water relay distance record

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Cameron will abstain from non-binding Parliament vote on ‘Palestine’

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

U.N. chief Ban criticizes Israel for West Bank building, ‘provocations’ at holy sites

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Academics from around the world sign petition opposing Israel boycott

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Swiss art museum reportedly to accept Gurlitt collection

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Remains of non-Jewish WWI commander of Jewish Legion brought to Israel

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Report: Richard Gere to star in movie filmed in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Rabbinic group: Women permitted to dance with Torah scroll

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Women of the Wall launch bat mitzvah bus ad campaign in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Israel Police push Arab rioters into mosque to clear Temple Mount for visitors

Marcy Oster
Published October 13, 2014

Email from Lewinsky scandal: Clinton didn’t commit adultery under Talmudic approach

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg letters available online

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Rome’s mayor slams Priebke tribute as ‘vulgar’

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Gaza donors’ confab brings $5.4B in pledges

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Lancet editor in editorial regrets, but does not retract, Gaza letter

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Historic Buffalo Synagogue demolished despite demonstrators

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Penn State students sentenced for painting anti-Semitic slogans on Jewish frat

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Report: Jewish girl among 100 French young women who have joined ISIS

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Arab-Israeli man fighting for ISIS killed in Iraq

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Israel to screen new arrivals for Ebola

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Temple Mount closed as 80,000 Jewish worshippers gather at Western Wall

Marcy Oster
Published October 12, 2014

Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues

Marcy Oster
Published October 10, 2014

Murder of Arab Silwan resident may be related to sale of building to Jews

Marcy Oster
Published October 10, 2014

Homemade bomb discovered at West Bank junction

Marcy Oster
Published October 10, 2014

Israel Police restrict Muslim worshippers on Temple Mount following riots

Marcy Oster
Published October 10, 2014

Report: Iran ordered Hezbollah to carry out attack on Israel over nuclear facility bombing

Marcy Oster
Published October 10, 2014

Hezbollah says bomb that wounded Israeli soldiers was a ‘message’

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Haredi girls school ordered to move out of secular Beit Shemesh school building

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Syrian rebels discover Russian spy post near Israeli border

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Spanish city reconnects to Jewish past with Sukkot cultural festival

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Masked Palestinians riot on Temple Mount on eve of Sukkot

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Facebook completes purchase of WhatsApp

Marcy Oster
Published October 8, 2014

Brooklyn coffee shop owner apologizes for calling Jews ‘greedy infiltrators’

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Designer Galliano back in fashion world two years after anti-Semitic rant

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Ralph Goldman, former JDC head and a builder of Israel, dies at 100

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Gardeners discover bag of ISIS flags in northern Israel

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards accepting nominations for 2015

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Israeli gov’t officials meet to discuss Ebola preparedness

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Norma Spungen, former Spertus archivist, dies

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Israeli soldiers injured by bomb planted near Lebanese border

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Ralph Goldman, ex-JDC head and builder of Israel, dies at 100

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Polish court acquits prosecutor for not trying swastika case

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Wife of Sydney chief rabbi apologizes for nasty letter to child sex abuse victim

Marcy Oster
Published October 7, 2014

Woolworths of South Africa threatens to sue BDS over protests

Marcy Oster
Published October 6, 2014
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