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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.

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All content by Marcy Oster

Bernie Madoff’s wife to pay $600,000 and leave estate in settlement of his fraud

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

Free measles vaccines to be available in haredi Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

Orthodox couple’s suit says Spirit Airlines staffer called them ‘retarded Jews’

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

Iran says it will partially withdraw from nuclear deal

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

National Library starts campaign to identify Israeli soldiers in old photos

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

French widower leaves Israel $14.5 million to support bereaved families

Marcy Oster
Published May 8, 2019

Israeli city to name square after Donald Trump

Marcy Oster
Published May 7, 2019
The Dvash-Banks family. (Immigration Equality)  

State Department appeals decision granting US citizenship to child of Jewish same-sex couple

Marcy Oster
Published May 7, 2019

Israelis on Memorial Day mourn nation’s 23,741 soldiers killed in service

Marcy Oster
Published May 7, 2019

Swastika sign riles U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee event celebrating Israel

Marcy Oster
Published May 7, 2019

Jewish home in New Jersey vandalized inside and out with swastikas and hate messages

Marcy Oster
Published May 5, 2019

Eurovision on track in Tel Aviv despite threat of rockets

Marcy Oster
Published May 5, 2019

Netanyahu orders ‘massive attacks’ against Gaza terror groups

Marcy Oster
Published May 5, 2019

Pregnant Palestinian woman and child killed by misfired Gaza rocket, Israeli military says

Marcy Oster
Published May 5, 2019

Israeli father of 4 killed by Gaza rocket fire

Marcy Oster
Published May 4, 2019

At least 300 rockets fired from Gaza strike Israel on Saturday

Marcy Oster
Published May 4, 2019
Betty McCollum at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2014. Photo: Larry French

House bill would withhold military aid to Israel over detention of Palestinian children

Marcy Oster
Published May 3, 2019

Gaza launches 2 rockets at southern Israel following Israeli retaliatory airstrikes

Marcy Oster
Published May 2, 2019

Trump decries rise in anti-Semitism in proclamation for Jewish American Heritage Month

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019

US to send official delegation to March of the Living for first time

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019
Detail from "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" by Camille Pissarro. (Wikimedia Commons)

$40 million Nazi-looted painting belongs to Spanish museum, not heirs of Jewish owner, US judge rules

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019

These 6 Holocaust survivors will light torches at Yom Hashoah ceremony in memory of the 6 million killed

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019

Iron Dome batteries deployed throughout Israel ahead of Ramadan, Eurovision

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019
John Earnest (Screenshot from KGTV San Diego)

Alleged Poway synagogue shooter pleads not guilty to murder and attempted murder

Marcy Oster
Published May 1, 2019

Florida Senate passes anti-Semitism bill

Marcy Oster
Published April 30, 2019

2 New York City Jewish schools closed over failure to heed orders on measles outbreak

Marcy Oster
Published April 30, 2019
A view of the Chabad congregation in Poway, Calif. Image: Google Street View

Alleged Poway synagogue shooter charged with murder

Marcy Oster
Published April 29, 2019

Israel says it foiled Hamas terror cell’s bombing plot planned for Election Day

Marcy Oster
Published April 29, 2019

Crowdfunding campaign, interfaith vigil support victims of Chabad attack

Marcy Oster
Published April 28, 2019

Israeli girl whose family left rocket attacks in Sderot to live in US among Chabad attack injured

Marcy Oster
Published April 28, 2019

Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, killed in Chabad attack, shielded rabbi from bullets

Marcy Oster
Published April 28, 2019
Eitam and Na'ama Henkin. (Courtesy of the family) 

4 children of couple murdered in West Bank sue Syria and Iran in federal court

Marcy Oster
Published April 25, 2019
The BerMax Caffe and Bistro in Winnipeg, Canada. (BerMax Caffe and Bistro/Instagam)

Anti-Semitic attack on kosher cafe in Canada was staged by owners, police say

Marcy Oster
Published April 25, 2019

Israel issues strong warning against travel to Sri Lanka

Marcy Oster
Published April 25, 2019

White House staffer who approved security clearance for Kushner is told to skip hearing

Marcy Oster
Published April 23, 2019

U.S. and Israel launch reciprocal investor visa programs

Marcy Oster
Published April 23, 2019

Last terrorist wanted in murder of Daniel Pearl arrested

Marcy Oster
Published April 23, 2019

Doors and air vents of 7 mausoleums stolen from historic NY Jewish cemetery

Marcy Oster
Published April 22, 2019

Israeli soldiers shoot handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian teen attempting to flee

Marcy Oster
Published April 22, 2019

Israel’s Health Ministry orders local airlines to vaccinate staff against measles

Marcy Oster
Published April 22, 2019

New England grocery chain selling Passover foods reaches contract agreement with workers

Marcy Oster
Published April 22, 2019

Swastika Acres neighborhood near Denver to get new name

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

NY State Supreme Court judge strikes down regulations ordering more secular studies in yeshivas

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

Brother of Toulouse Jewish school killer will spend 30 years in jail for ‘complicity’

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

Israel razes home of Palestinian man accused of murdering Israeli teen

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

NYU president skips President’s Service Awards. Some say it’s because Students for Justice in Palestine was honored.

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

Kosher restaurant in Canada vandalized for fourth time

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

Fire, believed to be arson, strikes Moscow yeshiva during seder

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019
Sri Lankan security forces secure the area around St. Anthony's Shrine after an explosion hit St Anthony's Church in Kochchikade on April 21, 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, one of eight bomb blasts to hit the country's churches and luxury hotels on Easter morning, killing at least 207 and injuring hundreds. (Gettty Images)

Israel offers assistance following bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

Vermont chemistry professor asked students to calculate lethal dose for Nazi gas chambers

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin celebrated seder with some 400 lone soldiers from 35 different countries on April 19, 2019. (Tzalamim Be’Klik)

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has seder with 400 lone soldiers

Marcy Oster
Published April 21, 2019

USAID to lay off most of its West Bank and Gaza staff

Marcy Oster
Published April 18, 2019
A view of a gas chamber at the former Stutthof camp. Photo: Christian Holmér/Flickr Commons

Germany charges former Nazi camp guard, 92, as accessory to murder

Marcy Oster
Published April 18, 2019

Netanyahu officially tasked with forming Israel’s next government

Marcy Oster
Published April 17, 2019

Jared Kushner says peace plan will be unveiled in June

Marcy Oster
Published April 17, 2019

Israeli scientists print 3D heart with human tissues and vessels

Marcy Oster
Published April 15, 2019

Israel divestment supporters hijack welcome ceremony for new Brown U students

Marcy Oster
Published April 15, 2019

Man in northern France stabs neighbor because he ‘wanted to kill a Jew’

Marcy Oster
Published April 15, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn in recording casts doubt on Labour Party’s ability to review complaints of anti-Semitism

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019

Settlers reportedly attack property and residents of Palestinian village in West Bank

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019

Pro-Palestinian activists interrupt Newark campaign rally for Cory Booker

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, with Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin and Yad Vashemn Director of External and Governmental Affairs Yossi Gevir at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on April 2, 2019. Photo: Itzik Harari/Yad Vashem

Bolsonaro says his comments on forgiving crimes of Holocaust taken out of context

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019

Cornell student government votes down Israel divestment resolution

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019
A haredi Orthodox man crosses the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Photo: Gil Shefler

Bus driver refuses to stop for haredi Orthodox man in Brooklyn over measles outbreak

Marcy Oster
Published April 14, 2019
Israel's Beresheet spacecraft took this "selfie" as it attempted to land on the moon. (SpaceIL/YouTube)

Israel is already planning its next spacecraft mission to the moon

Marcy Oster
Published April 13, 2019

US bars entry to Omar Barghouti, co-founder of BDS movement, at Israeli airport

Marcy Oster
Published April 11, 2019

Israel finally OKs medical school at West Bank university

Marcy Oster
Published April 11, 2019

Bennett, Shaked call for recount of soldiers’ votes after just missing electoral theshhold

Marcy Oster
Published April 11, 2019

Blue and White co-leaders concede defeat in Israel’s elections

Marcy Oster
Published April 10, 2019
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet takes a selfie with Earth from more than 23,000 miles away. (SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israelis are fired up to see their Beresheet spacecraft land on the moon. Here’s how to watch it.

Marcy Oster
Published April 10, 2019

9 takeaways from Israel’s historic election

Marcy Oster
Published April 10, 2019

Netanyahu and Gantz in dead heat, Israeli election exit polls show

Marcy Oster
Published April 9, 2019
There have been 285 reported cases of measles in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community since October, 246 of which are children, the Department of Health reported in early April. Photo: Hannah Smith/KOMU/Flickr

NYC declares public health emergency over measles outbreak in haredi Orthodox community

Marcy Oster
Published April 9, 2019

150,000 Israelis visit national parks on Election Day

Marcy Oster
Published April 9, 2019

Likud placed 1,200 hidden cameras in polling stations in Arab communities

Marcy Oster
Published April 9, 2019

Israel approves thousands of new West Bank housing units

Marcy Oster
Published April 8, 2019

Youngstown rabbi and Green Party presidential hopeful visiting ‘Israel-Palestine’

Marcy Oster
Published April 8, 2019

Man charged for posting plans on Facebook to kill Jews in mass shooting

Marcy Oster
Published April 8, 2019

Judge overturns ban on unvaccinated minors in New York county

Marcy Oster
Published April 8, 2019

South Africa downgrades embassy in Israel to liaison office

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019

Britian’s Labour Party has failed to investigate hundreds of anti-Semitism cases, leaked emails show

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019

U.S. to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corp as a foreign terrorist organization

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019

Man arrested in Montana for threatening to attack U.S. location, including a synagogue

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019
A housing development in the Israeli West Bank settlement of Efrat, a bedroom community outside Jerusalem. Photo: Ben Sales/JTA

Netanyahu says he will annex West Bank if re-elected

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019

Woman arrested for alleged involvement in anti-Semitic graffiti in Oklahoma

Marcy Oster
Published April 7, 2019

Family of soldier missing in Gaza ‘moved’ by return of Zachary Baumel’s remains

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019
A view of the Beth Israel Synagogue in Izmir, Turkey, in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons) 

Synagogue firebombed in Turkey

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019

Uber removes London driver who would not take Jews

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019
SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries engineering teams celebrate after the six-minute maneuver that brought the Beresheet spacecraft into the moon's orbit. Photo: Eliran Avital

Israeli spacecraft Beresheet enters moon’s orbit in last major step before landing

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019

Netanyahu, in Moscow, thanks Putin for help in return of soldier’s body

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour identified Haifa as being located in the West Bank

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019

Doctor fired from second medical residency program over anti-Semitic social media posts

Marcy Oster
Published April 4, 2019

Jewish ‘Good Samaritan’ stops man from jumping off a New York bridge

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2019

Jerusalem woman finally gets a Jewish divorce after her husband is fired from job and jailed

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2019
Preservation experts and officials from the Western Wall Heritage Foundation inspect the stones of the Western Wall for stability on April 3, 2019. (Courtesy of Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

Western Wall stones inspected for stability

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2019

Palestinian man shot dead by father of teen he allegedly tried to stab in a car

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2019
The remains of Israeli soldier Zachary Baumel, who went missing in Lebanon in 1982, were returned to Israel. (Courtesy of Miriam Baumel)

Remains of missing Israeli soldier Zachary Baumel returned home after 37 years

Marcy Oster
Published April 3, 2019

Fake social media accounts working to help Netanyahu reelection bid, report finds

Marcy Oster
Published April 1, 2019

40,000 rioted on Gaza border in protests controlled by Hamas

Marcy Oster
Published March 31, 2019

United Nations and European Union condemn US Golan recognition

Marcy Oster
Published March 28, 2019
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