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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 Zack Rothbart
A well-coifed Vidal Sassoon poses for a photo while in Israel, 1948 (Original photo: Toldot Yisrael via the Sassoon Family / Colorization: MyHeritage)

Israel, 1948: The true story of Vidal Sassoon in combat

Zack Rothbart, National Library of Israel
Published May 12, 2022
Mickey-Marcus-Schwadron

[Photo] Kirk Douglas: Star of David and Hollywood

Lawrence Baron, San Diego Jewish World
Published December 16, 2021
E. Lawrence Levy,

This Hebrew school teacher was the first ever world weightlifting champ

Zack Rothbart, The National Library of Israel
Published August 8, 2021
Though many if not most leading psychoanalysts at the time were German-speaking Jews, they offered very few public attempts to psychologically analyze Hitler. (Image: Dutch anti-Hitler propaganda, ca. 1940s / Public domain)

What did ‘America’s Freud’ think about Hitler?

Zack Rothbart, The National Library of Israel
Published August 1, 2021
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