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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

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Jewish newspaper editor fired after running cartoon about Gaza

Jewish newspaper editor fired after running cartoon about Gaza

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published March 3, 2025
US President Donald Trump listens to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2025.

US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published February 5, 2025
French far-right party Front National founder and honorary president Jean-Marie Le Pen looks on at the foot of a statue of Joan of Arc during the party's annual rally in honour of Joan of Arc in Paris, May 1, 2015. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)

Convicted French Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published January 7, 2025
A Hanukkah-themed edition of the New York Times game Strands had some Jewish users raising their eyebrows about what was considered Jewish food. (Design by Yael Buechler)

NYT game misspells Hanukkah in Festival of Lights-themed puzzle

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published December 30, 2024
This handout photo provided by SpaceX and Polaris on Sept. 15, 2024, shows Jared Isaacman, mission commander, stepping out of the manned Polaris Dawn mission's "Dragon" capsule after it splashed down off the coast of Dry Tortugas, Florida, after completing the first human spaceflight mission by non-government astronauts of the Polaris Program. (Polaris Program/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump picks Jewish space adventurer to head NASA

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published December 4, 2024
Rabbi Zvi Kogan is pictured in an undated photo distributed by Chabad. In background: The Jewish Community Center of the UAE hosts Yom Kippur prayers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 15, 2021 (Andrea DiCenzo/Getty Images)

Three arrested in the murder of Chabad rabbi in United Arab Emirates

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published November 24, 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum of arrives to give a speech after the first results released by Mexican election authorities show her with a commanding lead in the presidential election on June 03, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Mexico elects first female and Jewish president

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published June 3, 2024
Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University in New York City on April 20, 2024. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP) (Photo by LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Rabbi at Columbia U urges Jewish students to leave campus

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published April 21, 2024
Israelis hold photographs of the Bibas family, and orange balloons, at a press conference calling for the release of 10-month-old Kfir, 4-year-old Ariel, and their parents Shiri and Yarden. at "Hostage Square" in Tel Aviv, Nov. 28, 2023.

Israel probes Hamas claims that youngest hostages were killed

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published November 29, 2023
Families of the Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march along with hundreds of Israelis towards the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, as part of a protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages, Nov. 18, 2023.

Deal to release dozens of hostages appears to be close

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published November 21, 2023
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Dec. 19, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Netanyahu orders crackdown on migrants after unrest in Tel Aviv

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published September 3, 2023
Israel to invest $40 million in North American Jewish day schools

Israel to invest $40 million in North American Jewish day schools

Jackie Hajdenberg and Philissa Cramer
Published May 17, 2023
Cartoonist Al Jaffee at the New York Comic Convention in Manhattan, October 9, 2010.
Photo by Luigi Novi. This photo may be used, modified and published for any purpose, only if a easily visible credit to the photographer is placed near the photo in each instance in which it is used.

Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist, dies at 102

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published April 11, 2023
Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, Oct. 21, 2022. (Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin via Getty)

Why Kanye West says he ‘likes Jewish people again’

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published March 26, 2023

Kanye West suspended again from Twitter after posting swastika

Philissa Cramer, JTA
Published December 2, 2022
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