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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 Shira Feder
Why some Jews won’t eat meat this week

Why some Jews won’t eat meat this week

Shira Feder, The Forward
Published July 13, 2021

We asked, you answered: Here’s how JTA readers experienced a historic, tumultuous year

Shira Feder
Published March 25, 2021

Please join us as we mark the pandemic’s American yahrzeit with a week of conversation, reflection and mourning

Shira Feder
Published March 1, 2021
Soffer

Bess Soffer, 68, Jewish community leader whose last words, by FaceTime, were ‘group hug’

Shira Feder
Published February 24, 2021

Meet a Jewish woman who lives in the former stronghold of the Aryan Nations

Shira Feder
Published February 8, 2021
Irene Fogel Weiss points to a photo of herself upon arrival in Auschwitz in May 1944. (Lesley Weiss) 

Irene Fogel Weiss survived Auschwitz. Then she watched a rioter in a Camp Auschwitz shirt break into the Capitol.

Shira Feder
Published February 2, 2021
Julia Tran, accompanied by friend Tehilla Limgento, picks up a cone from Bruce Becker. (Shira Feder)

This ice cream parlor is famous for wild flavors. It’s surviving the pandemic by catering to Jewish customers.

Shira Feder
Published February 2, 2021
Two women, one wearing a tallit, blow the shofar amid the Capitol rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Lloyd Wolf

Meet Lloyd Wolf, a Jewish photographer who captured photos of the Capitol mob

Shira Feder
Published January 13, 2021
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, marching with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the second Selma to Montgomery, Ala. civil rights march on Mar. 21, 1965.

Georgia Senate winner Raphael Warnock: Heschel and King ‘are smiling in this moment’

Shira Feder
Published January 6, 2021

Jewish life in 2020: A year in pictures

Shira Feder
Published December 30, 2020

From Dubai to hospitals to, yes, Zoom, here are 12 snapshots of how Jews around the world celebrated Hanukkah this year

Shira Feder
Published December 18, 2020

Suzanne Tauber, 79, avid reader and beloved grandmother

Shira Feder
Published December 18, 2020
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