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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

Actor John Cusack tweets and then apologizes for anti-Semitic image

Marcy Oster
Published June 18, 2019

Theresa May in letter praises Jewish community and offers continuing support

Marcy Oster
Published June 17, 2019

Who’s running the show in Israel between elections? An explainer.

Marcy Oster
Published June 17, 2019

California man arrested after threatening synagogue mass shooting

Marcy Oster
Published June 16, 2019

Sara Netanyahu convicted in prepared meals fraud case

Marcy Oster
Published June 16, 2019

Rocket fired from Gaza strikes school building in Sderot

Marcy Oster
Published June 13, 2019

Israel’s Supreme Court chief says new justice minister is leading country to anarchy

Marcy Oster
Published June 13, 2019

Israel bombs underground Hamas facility in Gaza after rocket fired at border community

Marcy Oster
Published June 13, 2019

Netanyahu remarks on pre-emptive strikes appear to acknowledge attack on Syria border

Marcy Oster
Published June 12, 2019

Jewish death row inmate’s appeal claims judge was anti-Semitic

Marcy Oster
Published June 12, 2019

Jewish candidate for Seattle City Council subject of violent anti-Semitic threats

Marcy Oster
Published June 12, 2019

Incendiary balloons from Gaza ignite fires in southern Israel

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

Israel says it has closed 30 fundraising accounts of boycott-backing nonprofits with links to terrorism

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

Jewish pluralist boarding high school closes abruptly due to financial issues

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

Congress wants to protect US forces using Israeli defense system

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

Ayelet Shaked will run again for Knesset

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

International New York Times ends publication of political cartoons

Marcy Oster
Published June 11, 2019

Pompeo tells Jewish leaders he will ‘push back’ against Britain’s Corbyn and anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published June 10, 2019

Small number of protesters demonstrate at DC Dyke March over ban on Jewish Pride flag

Marcy Oster
Published June 10, 2019

Israel has its first gay government minister. He’s loyal to Netanyahu.

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019

DC Dyke March bans Jewish Pride flags

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019
It is a tradition to study Jewish texts all night on Shavuot, which marks the Jews’ receiving of the Torah. Photo: Konstantin Goldenberg/Shutterstock

Israeli rabbis’ Shavuot learning program goes global

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019
Tens of thousands march through the streets of Jerusalem for the annual pride parade on Aug. 2, 2018. Photo: Adi Eddy/Courtesy of Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance

Police detain 2 over plans to disrupt Jerusalem Pride Parade

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019

NJ library cancels hearing over plan for public reading of ‘P is for Palestine’

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019

No reason to further postpone Netanyahu pre-indictment hearing, attorney general says

Marcy Oster
Published June 6, 2019

YouTube will remove more videos containing hate speech and supremacist content

Marcy Oster
Published June 5, 2019
Detail of the invitation to the 1928 wedding of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to Chaya Mushka Yitzchak. (Courtesy of the National Library of Israel)

Wedding invitation of Lubavitcher rebbe discovered at National Library of Israel

Marcy Oster
Published June 5, 2019
Photo: Wikimedia Commons  

Florida removes Airbnb from blacklist after West Bank settlements ban overturned

Marcy Oster
Published June 5, 2019

Trump turned down request to meet Jeremy Corbyn

Marcy Oster
Published June 4, 2019
Nechama Rivlin adjusts the tie of her husband, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, during a state visit to Spain in 2017.(GPO/Haim Tzach) 

Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73

Marcy Oster
Published June 4, 2019

Right-wing Israeli lawmaker: Return nation’s justice system to days of kings David and Solomon

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Supreme Court in Israel freezes deportation order against Human Rights Watch director there

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs legislation against anti-Semitism into law

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Kushner says in rare interview he hopes the Palestinians ‘can become capable of governing’

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019
Sobibor Railway Station. Photo: Jacques Lahitte

Last living survivor of Nazi death camp Sobibor dies

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Pompeo says peace plan ‘might not gain traction’ and is viewed as tilted toward Israel

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Trump says Israeli politics are ‘messed up’ and he is ‘not happy about that’

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Israel attacks Syrian airbase used by Iran, Syria alleges

Marcy Oster
Published June 3, 2019

Netanyahu fires acting goverment ministers Bennett and Shaked ahead of election campaign

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

Hundreds of thousands attend New York’s Celebrate Israel Parade

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

Tens of thousands of Israeli youth join Flag March through Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

Sarah Jessica Parker arrives in Israel for private family visit

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

Muslim worshippers riot after Jews allowed on Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

California Democratic Party softens language on draft resolutions critical of Israel

Marcy Oster
Published June 2, 2019

Palestinian Uber driver kicks 2 Jewish women out of his car after learning they attended Israel event

Marcy Oster
Published May 30, 2019

Israel is holding new elections. What comes next?

Marcy Oster
Published May 30, 2019

Kushner, Greenblatt arrive in Israel to talk about peace plan as government dissolves

Marcy Oster
Published May 30, 2019

Liberman ups the rhetoric against Netanyahu following dissolution of government

Marcy Oster
Published May 30, 2019
David Ben-Gurion at a conference in Tel Aviv on Dec. 15, 1947. (GPO)

New elections means Netanyahu will become longest serving prime minister

Marcy Oster
Published May 30, 2019

Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

Marcy Oster
Published May 29, 2019

Episode of new Netflix series mocks Anne Frank

Marcy Oster
Published May 29, 2019

Sara Netanyahu signs plea deal in restaurant meals fraud case

Marcy Oster
Published May 29, 2019

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sued over state Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

Marcy Oster
Published May 29, 2019

New Israeli elections loom with Netanyahu still unable to form a coalition

Marcy Oster
Published May 28, 2019
A view of some of the emojis currently available on the iPhone. (JTA Staff)

European rabbis call on world body that regulates emojis to add images that represent Jews

Marcy Oster
Published May 28, 2019

SodaStream hosts Ramadan break fast in southern Israel factory

Marcy Oster
Published May 28, 2019

Israeli settler suspended from IDF after caught on camera setting Palestinian field alight

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Trump tweet about Israeli coalition negotiations is derided as meddling

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Israel destroys Syrian missile launcher on border after it fires on Israeli jet

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Netanyahu in public statement calls on Liberman to join government coalition

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Belgian model walks naked though Hasidic Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Teenage yeshiva boys save man with swastika tattoo from drowning in Boston

Marcy Oster
Published May 27, 2019

Politico magazine accused of anti-Semitism over Bernie Sanders illustration

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Hasidic Jews in Staten Island remove eruv after anti-Semitic backlash

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

NYC Uber driver calls Hasidic passenger ‘one of those f***ing measles people’

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Israel could be going to the polls, again

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Fire that destroyed Israeli community founded by Shlomo Carlebach is suspected arson

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Over 1,000 fires extinguished throughout Israel

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv against immunity legislation

Marcy Oster
Published May 26, 2019

Dayton Jews are cautioned to keep away from KKK rally

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

NYU speaker praises campus groups that support BDS

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

Fire devastates Israeli community founded by Shlomo Carlebach

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

Palestinians officially reject economic summit

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

Photos of Holocaust survivors exhibited on Vienna street vandalized

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019

Gaza fishing zone reduced after increase in incendiary balloons setting fires in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published May 23, 2019
Michael Aloni stars in "Shtisel." (Screenshot from YouTube)

Labor disputes threatens return of ‘Shtisel’ for third season

Marcy Oster
Published May 22, 2019

Extreme heat wave throughout Israel casts pall on Lag b’Omer bonfires

Marcy Oster
Published May 22, 2019

Indiana man sentenced to 3 years in prison for vandalizing synagogue

Marcy Oster
Published May 22, 2019
Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog helps a participant in a bar and bat mitzvah for deaf teens to unwrap his tefillin at the Nitzanim Synagogue in Jerusalem on May 20, 2019. Photo: Nachshon Philipson

80 deaf Israeli children have bar and bat mitzvah ceremony

Marcy Oster
Published May 22, 2019

San Diego State center apologizes for photo of Palestinian terrorist

Marcy Oster
Published May 21, 2019

CEO of National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia resigns

Marcy Oster
Published May 21, 2019
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin meets in Jerusalem with a group of U.S. mayors led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, fourth from left, May 15, 2019. Photo: Amos Ben-Gershom/Israeli Government Press Office

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said he supports move of US Embassy to Jerusalem. Pro-Palestinian groups are calling him out.

Marcy Oster
Published May 21, 2019
Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons 

More than 13 million documents from Nazi concentration camps posted online

Marcy Oster
Published May 21, 2019

Israeli group distributing relief to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia

Marcy Oster
Published May 21, 2019
A view of the Anshei Sholom B’nei Israel congregation in Chicago. (Google Maps)

Chicago synagogue target of arson attacks

Marcy Oster
Published May 20, 2019

White House to roll out economic component of Middle East peace proposal, report says

Marcy Oster
Published May 19, 2019

Israeli military closes probe into death of paraplegic Palestinian protester

Marcy Oster
Published May 19, 2019

Israeli teen suspected of throwing rock that killed Palestinian woman released to house arrest

Marcy Oster
Published May 19, 2019

Legislation would grant additional funds to synagogues for security

Marcy Oster
Published May 19, 2019

Madonna uses Eurovision stage for political statement on Israel-Palestinian conflict

Marcy Oster
Published May 19, 2019

Teen turns himself in for attack on Jewish man in Brooklyn

Marcy Oster
Published May 16, 2019

Israel’s Supreme Court rejects appeal to open Temple Mount to Jews on Jerusalem Day

Marcy Oster
Published May 16, 2019

Dozens injured as Palestinian demonstrations to mark Israel’s founding turn into riots

Marcy Oster
Published May 15, 2019
Judge Jim Lammey (Screenshot from WMC 5) 

Tennessee county votes to censure judge who posted article saying Jews should ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’

Marcy Oster
Published May 15, 2019

Daughter of Las Vegas rabbi targeted with anti-Semitic notes at middle school

Marcy Oster
Published May 15, 2019

Accused Poway gunman pleads not guilty to federal hate crime charges

Marcy Oster
Published May 15, 2019

BBC documentary accused of covering up Palestinian anti-Semitism with mistranslation

Marcy Oster
Published May 14, 2019

Jewish fraternity at Hofstra U suspended after forcing dog to drink beer

Marcy Oster
Published May 14, 2019

U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issues security alert for Americans in Israel

Marcy Oster
Published May 14, 2019

Tennessee judge posts link on Facebook saying Jews should ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’

Marcy Oster
Published May 9, 2019
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