Penny Schwartz Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘The Sopranos’: A gritty, forgotten novel by Sholom Aleichem is published in English for the first time

Published October 6, 2021

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Published October 3, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

Published August 27, 2021

New children’s books for the Jewish New Year

Published August 18, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

Published August 6, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

Published June 16, 2021

Marianne Steiner, 101, stylish Holocaust survivor who supported research on German Jewry

Published April 9, 2021

A Boston-area high school football team used ‘Auschwitz’ and ‘rabbi’ to call plays

Published March 24, 2021

What makes this Passover different from all others? Brandeis University is celebrating.

Published March 23, 2021

A Jewish campus grows in suburban Boston, as Hebrew College announces relocation plan

Published March 22, 2021

Carl Shapiro, Brandeis benefactor who lost millions to Madoff, dies at 108

Published March 15, 2021

Leo Rechter, 93, fought for destitute Holocaust survivors

Published March 12, 2021

In new Passover children’s books, a bespectacled lion reads the Haggadah and a Depression-era mitzvah

Published March 8, 2021

William Good, 96, survivor of Holocaust massacre who became beloved California doctor

Published February 26, 2021

Italo Servi, 98, soft-spoken heir to rich Italian Jewish heritage

Published February 26, 2021

Jewish prisoner’s photos depicting horrid life in Lodz Ghetto donated to Boston museum

Published February 22, 2021

Another accolade for Max Gross’ ‘Lost Shtetl’: Best fiction from Association of Jewish Libraries

Published February 8, 2021

Donald Kraft, 92, mathematician with lifelong zest for learning

Published February 3, 2021

From llamas to a Jewish superhero, these 8 children’s books bring new characters into the Hanukkah story

Published November 3, 2020

Bradley Fields, 68, renowned magician who studied Talmud and taught math to kids

Published September 1, 2020

This rabbi spent 4 months on a ventilator and endured 4 collapsed lungs from COVID-19. Now he’s recovering.

Published August 25, 2020

How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

Published July 27, 2020

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

Published July 2, 2020

Sidney Forman, 95, lived out a dream with performance of musical comedy he wrote in the 1960s

Published June 25, 2020

A Jewish ‘Dreamer’ breathes a sigh of relief after US Supreme Court preserves DACA

Published June 19, 2020

This Jewish Boston bookseller wants to help you spruce up your Zoom background

Published June 19, 2020

Ohio’s Health Dept. director resigns after backlash over stay-at-home orders

Published June 18, 2020

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

Published June 18, 2020

Eva Konrad Hawkins, 90, Holocaust survivor who designed underwater museum exhibits

Published June 18, 2020

Sylvia Glenn, 98, painter who befriended Margaret Mead

Published June 9, 2020

Elsa Dorfman, photographer who was subject of Errol Morris film, dies at 83

Published June 3, 2020

Carolyn Becker, 83, was looking forward to life’s next chapter

Published June 2, 2020

Jeffrey Sanderson, 62, took pleasure in the small things

Published May 26, 2020

Lee Kozol, 87, Boston attorney who represented the Patriots

Published May 20, 2020

Hyman Siegal, 90, taught young Leonard Nimoy to develop film

Published May 18, 2020

Meryl Cohen, 84, hosted epic family Thanksgiving celebrations

Published May 5, 2020

Bud Rose, 77, ‘the Steve Jobs of medicine’

Published April 29, 2020

32 residents die of coronavirus at 2 Massachusetts Jewish senior living facilities

Published April 14, 2020

Sun Valley, Idaho, a celebrity destination, is a coronavirus hot spot. Here’s how the local Jewish community is coping.

Published April 7, 2020

Robert Lappin, Jewish philanthropist and founder of teen Israel program, dies at 98

Published April 7, 2020

In new Passover children’s books, meet a googly eyed gator and spend a seder in outer space

Published April 3, 2020

Lawrence Bacow, Harvard University’s Jewish president, has the coronavirus

Published March 25, 2020

Stephan Ross, survivor who founded New England Holocaust Memorial, dies

Published February 26, 2020

Trailblazing book by Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats is most checked-out book ever at New York Public Library

Published January 15, 2020

‘Goodnight Bubbala’ and other Hanukkah-themed children’s books for the holiday season

Published December 16, 2019

The earliest known American Jewish novel introduces an early feminist voice

Published November 19, 2019

High-profile Israel boycott conference at UMass Amherst sparks concern — and a peace march

Published November 12, 2019

Anti-Semitic fliers in Massachusetts declare Holocaust ‘fake news’

Published July 16, 2019

Passover inspires one of the top 50 public arts projects of 2018

Published July 2, 2019

This chef turned his popular falafel truck into a booming Israeli restaurant

Published June 12, 2019

Boston area rallies after Chabad rabbis are targeted with anti-Semitic slurs on Shabbat

Published June 6, 2019

Police now probing 3 fires at 2 Boston-area Chabad houses

Published May 17, 2019

Police probe second suspicious fire at Boston-area Chabad

Published May 17, 2019

Fire at Chabad center in suburban Boston investigated as possible hate crime

Published May 16, 2019

Diary of WWII’s Monuments Man given to National Archives

Published April 30, 2019

A ‘Sesame Street’ seder and 4 other new children’s books for Passover

Published March 28, 2019

Immigrant tale wins top Jewish children’s book honor

Published January 28, 2019

Jewish studies conference celebrates 50 years of explosive growth in the field

Published December 18, 2018

Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust

Published December 6, 2018

Israeli special ops force was in Gaza for two months before its firefight with Hamas, report says

Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network

Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

Published December 6, 2018

OSU student government votes down Israel boycott and divestment resolution

Published December 6, 2018

Arrest made in attack on Hasidic man in Brooklyn

Published December 6, 2018

Super soccer star Messi joins Beitar Jerusalem team fans club

Published December 6, 2018

Israel’s chief rabbi lights Hanukkah candles in Polish parliament

Published December 6, 2018

Princeton is naming a residential college after Ronald and Debra Perelman

Published December 5, 2018

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ season 2 debuts on Amazon to glowing reviews

Published December 5, 2018

Saudi dissident sues Israeli cyber tech company in death of Jamal Khashoggi

Published December 5, 2018

Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ sells at auction for nearly $3 million

Published December 5, 2018

New Hampshire town rejects menorah display. Christmas tree could be next.

Published December 5, 2018

Portugal sets aside a day to remember Inquisition victims

Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu rejected in bid to have donors pay his legal fees

Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu calls violence against women ‘terrorism’ following a rally by 30,000 in Tel Aviv

Published December 5, 2018

OU’s exec named to NY State Attorney General-elect’s transition team

Published December 5, 2018

Portugal government committee approves Memorial Day for the Victims of the Inquisition

Published December 5, 2018

Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at events around the world

Published December 5, 2018

Israeli technology effectively prevents attacks during G20

Published December 5, 2018

Hanukkah menorah is toppled near Harvard campus

Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah tunnels are ‘concrete threat’ to Israel’s Galilee region, Netanyahu says

Published December 4, 2018

Evidence of Rohingya genocide is ‘compelling,’ US Holocaust Museum says

Published December 4, 2018

Kosher ban is okay with Jewish supporters of Germany’s far right party

Published December 4, 2018

3 large swastikas spray-painted in Brooklyn neighborhood

Published December 4, 2018

101 Jewish and pro-Israel groups ask universities to oppose Israel boycotts

Published December 4, 2018

Rashida Tlaib, newly elected Congresswoman, says she will lead a lawmakers’ trip to West Bank

Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah and Iran discussed at meeting between Netanyahu and Pompeo

Published December 4, 2018

Israel launches operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels on northern border

Published December 4, 2018

Saudi Arabia loses world chess tournament for refusing visas to Israeli players

Published December 3, 2018

Thousands of Israeli women to strike in protest of violence against women

Published December 3, 2018

ID system for asylum seekers in Mexico recalls Holocaust tattoos

Published December 3, 2018

Condemn anti-Semitic image on pro-government magazine cover, Lauder tells Orban

Published December 3, 2018

Mental status of driver who tried to run down 2 Jews outside LA synagogue questioned

Published December 3, 2018

Synagogue in Basel, Switzerland vandalized

Published December 3, 2018

Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony held outside Tree of Life synagogue building

Published December 3, 2018

Netanyahu flies to Brussels to meet Pompeo

Published December 3, 2018

Trump pledges support for Jewish victims of hate in Hanukkah message

Published December 2, 2018