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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

Shir Ami remembers Theodore Bikel

Susan FademPublished October 14, 2015

As a teenager, Carol Kaplan-Lyss received Theodore Bikel’s first album, “An Actor’s Holiday,” from a boyfriend. She cherished the music. As president of the Hillel House at Washington University, she was given a paid trip to New York for a...

Elsie Levy in 2010. Photo: Mike Sherwin

Elsie Levy

Susan FademPublished June 2, 2010

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of area schoolchildren have walked past the "The Flame," a picture-filled art quilt that hangs at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center. A memorial to the victims of World War II, the quilt was designed by the...

Sarijane Freiman (seated), with her daughter, Rebecca Helfer. Photo: Lisa Mandel

Sarijane Freiman

Susan FademPublished June 2, 2010

Sarijane Freiman never set out to be a social activist. In fact, she grew up at a time when "young ladies were supposed to marry well, make children, join Hadassah and work for (the temple) Sisterhood." Freiman did all those things. But it was as a mother,...

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