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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 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
Elizabeth Taylor's Judaism, love for Richard Burton highlight epic new biography

Elizabeth Taylor’s Judaism, love for Richard Burton highlight epic new biography

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published January 31, 2023
Netanyahu autobiography is fascinating, timely read

Netanyahu autobiography is fascinating, timely read

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published November 10, 2022
Andrew Nagorski

‘Saving Freud’ details psychoanalysis founder’s almost fatal reluctance to leave his beloved Vienna

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published October 6, 2022
New Truman bio offers balanced perspective on his presidency

New Truman bio offers balanced perspective on his presidency

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published May 4, 2022
How comic books played a major role in Cold War propaganda

How comic books played a major role in Cold War propaganda

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published April 6, 2022
‘The Batman’ reinforces Jewish elements of enduring superhero and adversaries

‘The Batman’ reinforces Jewish elements of enduring superhero and adversaries

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published March 11, 2022
Ich bin ein Ukrainer: Why Ukraine war is personal to my family and me

Ich bin ein Ukrainer: Why Ukraine war is personal to my family and me

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published February 28, 2022
Issue #2 "Proof that mice can roar"

Issue #2 “Proof that mice can roar”

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published February 2, 2022
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Robert A. Cohn writes that he has been buying newspapers, magazines and comics from World News in Clayton since its opening in 1967. The store recently announced it will close in February. Photo: Alec Baris

Ink-loving editor bids farewell to beloved Clayton news shop

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published January 21, 2022
Dr. Martin Luther King at a press conference. (Marion S. Trikosko)

When Martin Luther King Jr. visited United Hebrew

ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
Published January 12, 2022
JCRC admits MaTovu, J Street as members

JCRC admits MaTovu, J Street as members

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published January 11, 2022
Cohn's Comic Corner: Issue #1

Cohn’s Comic Corner: Issue #1

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published January 6, 2022
Dr. Stanley Frager

Dr. Stanley Frager

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published January 6, 2022
Danforth says religion can bridge America's divisiveness

Danforth says religion can bridge America’s divisiveness

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 17, 2021
Skip Erwin, veteran sports journalist, columnist for Light, dies at 96

Skip Erwin, veteran sports journalist, columnist for Light, dies at 96

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 1, 2021
‘Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero’ by Roy Schwartz; McFarland & Co., 359 pages plus bibliography, $45

Look, up on the shelf! Author provides a definitive account of Superman’s Jewish ties

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published November 3, 2021
Then-Secretary of State Colin Powell talks to editors and reporters of USA Today in 2004. Photo: H. Darr Beiser-USA TODAY NETWORK

Remembering Colin Powell: Mensch of the Military

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published October 20, 2021
‘Memory’s Shadow’ by Gail Benick, Inanna Publications, 146 pages, $22.95

Holocaust survivors’ children grapple with past in new novel set in St. Louis

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published September 23, 2021
‘The Remnant: On Burning Wings — To a Dis- placed Persons Camp and Beyond’ by Michael G. Kesler, Vallentine Mitchell, 149 pages plus index, paper, $22.95. Sold online via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other sellers.

Polish WWII survivor’s memoir reads like a thriller

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published September 23, 2021
Total Taliban victory over U.S. is absolute worst-case scenario 

Total Taliban victory over U.S. is absolute worst-case scenario 

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published August 19, 2021
TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 2014 - Mendel Rosenberg is one of the 2014 Ageless: Remarkable St. Louisans award winners. Mendel Rosenberg was 13 years old when the Nazis invaded his home country of Lithuania, killed his father and eventually sent him to Dachau concentration camp. He endured years of torture, starvation and deprivation, yet he survived. Seventy-two years later, he is on a mission to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Mendel makes 80 to 100 presentations each year at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and at area schools, sharing a story that is both horrifying and inspiring. ©Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.

Mendel Rosenberg, Holocaust survivor who shared story with thousands of St. Louis students, dies at 92

Eric Berger and Robert A. Cohn
Published July 30, 2021
Ben & Jerry’s odious action bolsters anti-Jewish BDS policy

Ben & Jerry’s odious action bolsters anti-Jewish BDS policy

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published July 27, 2021
St. Louis photographer’s art comes alive in black and white

St. Louis photographer’s art comes alive in black and white

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published July 9, 2021
Rosalyn Borg

Rosalyn Borg, former local AJC Director, dies at 85

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published June 30, 2021
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.

Biography chronicles career of big time Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published June 1, 2021
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is the author of ‘Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History.’ Telushkin photo: Stephen Friedgood

Telushkin to speak on his biography of Chabad Rebbe

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published June 1, 2021
Philip Asher Isserman

Philip A. Isserman, decorated veteran, former Westwood mayor dies at 95

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published May 14, 2021

Renewed Israel-Palestinian conflict is worst crisis since Yom Kippur War

ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
Published May 13, 2021
The cover and an inside page of ‘Veronica Viggle and the Bubble Gum Machine: A Mad Scientist Story’

Local dad’s bedtime stories become giggles and thrills for a new generation

ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
Published May 10, 2021

A look at Biden’s Jewish picks for staff, Cabinet

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 3, 2020
Above: American soldiers wade from Coast Guard landing barge toward the beach at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Photo: Robert F. Sargent/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

D-Day plus 79 years: Pivotal battle helped save the West, world Jewry

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published June 2, 2019
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy are shown on June 22, 1963 in Washington, D.C.

What was lost with murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy?

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published May 31, 2018
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (second from right), marches at Selma with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Bunche, Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Rev. C.T. Vivian. (Courtesy of Susannah Heschel)

The Torch has passed—but to whom?

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 7, 2017

Sheila Michaels, iconic feminist who popularized ‘Ms.,’ dies at 78

Robert A. Cohn
Published July 11, 2017
Pages from the Oct. 27, 1965 Jewish Light.

600 words that changed 2,000 years of Catholic-Jewish relations

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published November 18, 2015

Jews of note: Jewish contributions to the classic American songbook

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 17, 2014

Jewish legislators assess current and future sessions

Robert A. Cohn
Published July 1, 2010
Rabbi Lipnick shown prior to his second bar mitzvah in May 2009.

Community mourns Rabbi Lipnick

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published May 1, 2010
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