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St. Louis Jewish Light
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 Michele Chabin
With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer

With new at-home paramedic service, Israel’s national ambulance service becomes telemedicine pioneer

MICHELE CHABIN, JTA
Published June 10, 2021

To understand Israel’s future, we must look at where it is today

Michele Chabin
Published January 14, 2021

After losing her father at age 9, this Jewish teen found a way to help adults deal with teen trauma

Michele Chabin
Published November 3, 2020

New help for the 20,000 Jewish communal professionals who lost jobs during pandemic

Michele Chabin
Published October 8, 2020
At the JCC in Overland Park, Kan., gym equipment is cleaned between uses to limit the possibility of coronavirus infection. (Courtesy of JFGKC) 

Planning reopenings amid pandemic, Jewish institutions navigate minefield of challenges

Michele Chabin
Published August 3, 2020
Children line up for clean drinking water provided by an Israeli aid group at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. (Courtesy of IsraAID)

With refugees hit doubly hard by the pandemic, Jewish groups step up aid efforts

Michele Chabin
Published July 17, 2020

Jerusalem’s Beit Avi Chai launches online Shavuot study program for Jews worldwide

Michele Chabin
Published May 21, 2020

Federations tap deep experience and networks to respond to unique pandemic-era needs

Michele Chabin
Published May 8, 2020

Amid coronavirus pandemic, Holocaust survivors at special risk — and getting extra help

Michele Chabin
Published April 21, 2020

Israeli students train guide dogs for the blind

Michele Chabin
Published October 24, 2019

Facing anti-Semitism at her California school, this Jewish teen takes matters into her own hands

Michele Chabin
Published November 29, 2018

Here’s how Israelis and local Jews are helping in Puerto Rico a year after Hurricane Maria

Michele Chabin
Published September 21, 2018

Immunotherapy treatments being developed in Israel offer new hope for cancer patients

Michele Chabin
Published July 5, 2018

Young Israeli scientists head to US to showcase work from medicine to mechanics

Michele Chabin
Published February 9, 2018

Where troubled Orthodox youth go in Jerusalem (and why it’s near the pubs)

Michele Chabin
Published November 9, 2017

This ex-Israeli soccer player is fighting two cancers, but still focused on helping others

Michele Chabin
Published September 14, 2017

Why you should fear skin cancer – and how to avoid it

Michele Chabin
Published August 3, 2017
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