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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

Benjamin Netanyahu becomes welfare minister, his 4th portfolio in addition to prime minister

Marcy Oster
Published September 4, 2019

Jewish groups provide emergency help to the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian

Marcy Oster
Published September 4, 2019

Tourist pays $2,800 for shawarma platter in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2019
Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella and 8-month-old Shneur Zalman arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, to set up the country's first Chabad center. (Courtesy of Chabad)

Chabad opens its first center in Rwanda

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2019

Swedish imam fined for calling Jews the ‘offspring of apes and pigs’

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2019

NYC measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods declared over

Marcy Oster
Published September 3, 2019

Hurricane Dorian makes its way to Florida coast as Jewish agencies prepare to help community

Marcy Oster
Published September 2, 2019

Missiles fired from Lebanon strike Israeli military targets; Israel responds with 100 mortar shells

Marcy Oster
Published September 1, 2019

Hamas and ISIS hate Israel — and each other

Marcy Oster
Published August 30, 2019

NY county’s Republican ad warns of a Hasidic ‘takeover’

Marcy Oster
Published August 29, 2019

NJ man sues Costco after cashier makes anti-Semitic remarks about him and son

Marcy Oster
Published August 29, 2019

Republic of Nauru recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 29, 2019

Russian embassy, Benny Gantz deny hack of Blue and White phones and computers

Marcy Oster
Published August 29, 2019

Lebanese Air Force fires on Israeli drones that entered its airspace

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Honduras will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Orthodox Jewish doctor loses challenge to New Jersey assisted-suicide law

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Israeli judoka makes history with gold medal at World Championships

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Trump administration will not release peace plan before Israeli elections

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Sackler family would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under proposed opioid settlement

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019
This 1963 photo of an Israeli Bookmobile is part of The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at The National Library of Israel. Photo: The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, The National Library of Israel

John Pritzker Family Fund endows photography collection at National Library of Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 28, 2019

Veteran Israeli TV personality apologizes for calling Arabs ‘savages’ on air

Marcy Oster
Published August 27, 2019

Israel bombs Hamas military post in Gaza in response to mortar fire

Marcy Oster
Published August 27, 2019

25 former Israeli security and defense officials warn against annexing West Bank territory

Marcy Oster
Published August 27, 2019

Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes first public appearance since treatment for pancreatic tumor

Marcy Oster
Published August 27, 2019
A memorial for the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. (Hane Grace Yagel) 

Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

Marcy Oster
Published August 27, 2019

Israel cuts fuel delivery to Gaza by half in response to rocket attacks

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2019

Israel’s Supreme Court bars 2 far-right candidates from running for Knesset

Marcy Oster
Published August 26, 2019

German soccer team criticizes its fans after anti-Semitic and racist chants

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2019

Medical resident fired from 2 programs over anti-Semitic social media posts requests hearing

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2019

Hundreds of Hasidic children in Montreal vaccinated against measles after 5 cases confirmed

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2019

US Army commander suspended after using Auschwtiz phrase ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ in memo

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2019

Israeli fighter jets thwart planned attack by Iran from Syria

Marcy Oster
Published August 25, 2019

Tree of Life to hold High Holiday services at local Episcopal church

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019
Arab-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh speaking at the Haaretz Conference in New York City, Dec. 13, 2015. (Erica Gannett for IRL Productions) 

Israel’s Arab parties leader says he would make history and join a center-left government coalition — with conditions

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019

NJ state employee fired over anti-Semitic social media posts

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019

Photos of Brandeis students and professors posted on white nationalist website

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019

2 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019

Man refusing religious divorce for his wife says reports he changed his mind are ‘fake news’

Marcy Oster
Published August 22, 2019

Trump doubles down on ‘disloyalty’ comments, saying all Democratic voters — not just Jews — are against Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019
A 68-year-old man was shot while waiting for services to start at the Young Israel of Greater Miami. (Facebook)

Police arrest suspect in shooting of elderly man outside Miami synagogue

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019

Israel-US relationship not dependent on political party, Israel’s president tells Nancy Pelosi

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019

Amazon launches operations in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019

Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for breast cancer genes, US task force says

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019

Jewish groups see Trump’s disloyalty remarks as ‘dangerous’ and ‘textbook anti-Semitism’

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019
Members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, Calif., give a Nazi salute in a video from 2018. (Instagram/Daily Beast)

California school district re-opens investigation into video of students making Nazi salute

Marcy Oster
Published August 21, 2019

Israeli schools to teach about fate of North African Jews in the Holocaust

Marcy Oster
Published August 19, 2019

Trump said he ‘probably’ will wait until after Israeli elections to roll out peace plan

Marcy Oster
Published August 19, 2019

Tlaib calls for boycott of Bill Maher show after he calls BDS a ‘bulls**t purity test’

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Poverty-stricken Israeli plays lottery for first time, wins over $140,000

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Anti-Semitic flyers found in New York neighborhood

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Israeli college student falls to her death on hike in Ethiopian desert

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Rockets fired from Gaza on southern Israel for 2 consecutive nights

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Israeli teen remains in serious condition after car ramming attack

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Essay by ‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman pulled because it compared Donald Trump to Marvel villain

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019
James P. Reardon Jr., 20, threatened the Jewish community center in Youngstown, Ohio. (Screenshot from NBC News)

Ohio man arrested for online threat against Youngstown JCC

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Rashida Tlaib’s grandmother curses Donald Trump over canceled West Bank visit

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Rashida Tlaib joins Shabbat service in Detroit park after canceled Israel trip

Marcy Oster
Published August 18, 2019

Rabbi accused of harassing military wife on Tacoma base resigns as second woman comes forward

Marcy Oster
Published August 11, 2019
Contestants during rehearsals for the Miss Universe 2007 pageant in Mexico City, Mexico (Greg Doyle/Wikimedia Commons)

Miss Universe could be crowned in Israel at a pageant coming soon

Marcy Oster
Published August 11, 2019
Some of the weapons and supplies carried by four Gazan Palesitnians who tried to infiltrate into Israel and were killed by Israeli troops on Aug. 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of the IDF

Two infiltration attempts by Gaza Palestinians leaves 5 dead

Marcy Oster
Published August 11, 2019

Jews allowed to visit Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av after initial ban

Marcy Oster
Published August 11, 2019
Israeli soldiers arrest two Palestinian men suspected in the muirder of yeshiva student Dvir Sorek on Aug. 10, 2019 from their homes in the Palestinian village Beit Khalil, north of Hebron in the West Bank. (Courtesy of the IDF)

2 Palestinian men arrested in death of yeshiva student

Marcy Oster
Published August 11, 2019

White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since Charlottesville rally, ADL says

Marcy Oster
Published August 8, 2019

Swastika found on dorm room wall of Israeli twin sisters at U of Indianapolis

Marcy Oster
Published August 8, 2019

Israel will ‘deepen our roots in all parts of our homeland,’ Netanyahu says

Marcy Oster
Published August 8, 2019

Israeli student found stabbed to death in West Bank

Marcy Oster
Published August 8, 2019

Israel says it thwarted a massive Hamas bomb attack in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published August 6, 2019

Israel advances plans for more than 2,300 West Bank settlement homes

Marcy Oster
Published August 6, 2019

Bezalel Smotrich again wishes for Israel to be governed by Jewish law, but acknowledges it won’t happen any time soon

Marcy Oster
Published August 6, 2019

‘Anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, pro-BDS’: California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum gets an F from Jewish caucus

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2019

2 Jewish boys wearing kippahs assaulted in Toronto suburb

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2019

BB shots fired at Los Angeles-area community Kollel building

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2019

Network drops extremist message board 8Chan after El Paso shooting

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2019

Centrist candidate Yair Lapid seeks to disqualify far-right party from Israeli elections

Marcy Oster
Published August 5, 2019

William Daroff named CEO of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019
This pug named Buddha was trained to do a Nazi salute as a joke, his owner's boyfriend said. Screenshot from YouTube

BBC airs documentary about the man who trained his dog to make a Nazi salute

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Likud candidates pledge loyalty to Netanyahu

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

National Republican Congressional Committee chairman sent letter saying Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg bought Congress

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Anti-Semitic graffiti painted on door of Minneapolis school

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Swastikas painted on Jewish-owned food truck in Miami

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Druze diplomat decries treatment by security at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Two US mass shootings leave at least 29 dead in 13 hours

Marcy Oster
Published August 4, 2019

Who’s running in Israel’s September elections, explained

Marcy Oster
Published August 2, 2019
Hal Prince at the 2017 Dramatists Guild Foundation gala in New York City, Nov. 6, 2017. Photo: Walter McBride/WireImage

Harold Prince, who brought ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ to the stage, dies at 91

Marcy Oster
Published August 1, 2019

Mayim Bialik says watching NYC subway riders removing hate message a ‘powerful moment of unity and understanding’

Marcy Oster
Published August 1, 2019

Kushner and peace team meet in Israel with Netanyahu

Marcy Oster
Published August 1, 2019

Palestinian gunman crosses Gaza border and injures 3 Israeli soldiers

Marcy Oster
Published August 1, 2019

5 years after last Gaza war, killed soldier’s parents still want a ‘decent burial’ for him

Marcy Oster
Published July 31, 2019

Kushner will invite Arab leaders to a peace conference during Middle East visit

Marcy Oster
Published July 31, 2019

Israel cites security in barring Spanish lawmaker of Palestinian descent

Marcy Oster
Published July 31, 2019

Vandals target Israeli-Arab town in what police say might be a hate crime

Marcy Oster
Published July 31, 2019

700 West Bank Palestinian homes approved by Israel’s Security Cabinet

Marcy Oster
Published July 31, 2019

French city official received a swastika birthday cake

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

Five leaders of extreme Jewish religious sect Lev Tahor indicted for kidnapping attempt

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

Manischewitz is selling all of its kosher food business

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

David and Tamar top lists of most popular Jewish baby names in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

Florida synagogue receives anti-Semitic and threatening package

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

Pipe bomb found at Joseph’s Tomb as 1,200 Jewish worshippers arrive

Marcy Oster
Published July 30, 2019

Los Angeles Jewish center sued to prevent kapparot ritual

Marcy Oster
Published July 29, 2019

Gal Gadot’s daughter is the voice of an Angry Birds 2 hatchling

Marcy Oster
Published July 29, 2019
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