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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

Robert A. Cohn is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the St. Louis Jewish Light. 

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Robert A. (Bob) Cohn is a native of St. Louis (b. 1939). He is a graduate of University City High School (Class of 1957) and is a member of the U. City High School Hall of Fame.

Bob is also a graduate of Washington University with degrees in English, Philosophy and Political Science, and a Doctor of Law degree. He is also a licensed attorney and a member of the Missouri Bar.

Interested in law and journalism since his childhood days, Bob was Editor of Student Life, the Washington U. undergraduate student newspaper and later of The Writ, the law school student newspaper.

After graduating law school in 1964, Bob worked for five years for then County Supervisor (Executive) Lawrence K. Roos. Bob was Administrative Assistant, Staff Attorney, Speech Writer and Press Secretary for Roos until 1969, when he became Chief Editor of the St. Louis Jewish Light, starting his long career at the Jewish community newspaper on July 1, 1969.

He semi-retired in 2004, but continues a very active association with the Jewish Light as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. Bob continues to collaborate on preparing the weekly editorials, covering hard news, doing interviews and features and reviewing books, plays and films.

Bob has been an active member in the Jewish and general communities and has won numerous awards for his journalism and public service. He is a past President of Congregation Shaare Emeth, of Legal Advocates for Abused Women, the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis and the St. Louis Regional Chapter of the American Jewish Congress (now the Midwest Jewish Congress).

Bob has won several national Simon Rockower Awards for his writing and received the Fred A. Goldstein Community Service Award from the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. He has received many other awards, including being inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame, and the Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel/Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Award from Jews United for Justice for his many years of civil rights work. Bob has been associated with the St. Louis County Human Relations Commission since 1964, and continues to serve as Chair.

Bob is married to the former Barbara Berg. They are the parents of three children, Scott (married to the former Julie Bohm) of Chesterfield, who have three children; Julie (married to Paul Greene, of Falmouth, Maine, who have two children; and Emily Cohn of Vinalhaven, Maine and St. Louis.

Bob Cohn can be reached at 314-743-3667 or at [email protected].

All content by Robert A. Cohn
Netanyahu autobiography is fascinating, timely read

Netanyahu autobiography is fascinating, timely read

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published November 10, 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
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
Cohns 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 Americas divisiveness

Danforth says religion can bridge America’s divisiveness

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 17, 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
‘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
Rosalyn Borg

Rosalyn Borg, former local AJC Director, dies at 85

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published June 30, 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

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

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Published December 3, 2020
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
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
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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