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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

ADL poll: Anti-Semitic attitudes up slightly in Europe

JTA • Published March 22, 2012

NEW YORK -- A new Anti-Defamation League poll found that anti-Semitic attitudes in several European countries have increased marginally since 2009. The poll, which was released Tuesday, reported slight increases in overall anti-Semitic attitudes in a...

Editorial: Smallest, smaller, small

Published March 21, 2012

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly NOW. Love mercy NOW. Walk humbly NOW. You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.—TalmudThe Earth may be big and its pain gigantic, but everything...

Washington University student Max LaVictoire stands by his Dodge Ram 1500, which was vandalized while he was out of town over spring break. All four tires on his truck had been slashed and two swastikas had been keyed into the body of the vehicle. Photo: Ellen Futterman

Jewish fraternity members’ vehicles vandalized; one keyed with swastikas

By Ellen Futterman, Editor • Published March 19, 2012

When Max LaVictoire returned to the Zeta Beta Tau house at Washington University Friday evening after a week of skiing over the school’s spring break, he was greeted by an unwelcome — and extremely upsetting — surprise: All four tires on his Dodge...

Jewish groups respond to ad in New York Times

JTA • Published March 4, 2012

Several Jewish federations and groups cited in an ad in the News York Times have responded to the harsh criticism of the Emergency Committee for Israel. The right-wing pro-Israel group called on Jewish charitable foundations to stop funneling money to...

Mormon letter warns members to stop proxy baptisms

JTA • Published March 4, 2012

A letter to be read in all Mormon churches warns members to stop all unauthorized posthumous baptisms, including those of Holocaust survivors. The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the highest governing body of the Mormon...

Shabbat conflict sends Beren Academy basketball squad to the sidelines

By Ben Harris, JTA • Published February 28, 2012

NEW YORK -- Chris Cole, the coach of the boys' basketball team at the Robert M. Beren Academy in Houston, says his squad is peaking coming off its 27-point victory in the state tournament quarterfinals. Apparently the Stars, who with a record of 24-5...

Jewish school is denied request to change basketball tourney time

JTA • Published February 27, 2012

NEW YORK -- An Orthodox high school in Texas was rejected in its request to have the state basketball semifinals rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the Jewish Sabbath. In a decision Monday, the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools informed...

Harvard hosting confab on one-state solution

JTA • Published February 26, 2012

Harvard University is hosting a two-day conference on the one-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The conference at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, scheduled for March 3-4, is organized by students at the school. In a letter...

David M. Grebler

David M. Grebler, 65; headed Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Light boards

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus • Published February 22, 2012

David M. Grebler, highly respected for his leadership of the Missouri/Southern Illinois Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League and as president of the St. Louis Jewish Light Board of Trustees from 2005-2007, died Thursday, Feb. 16, at MD...

Elise Jarvis

Community security is everyone’s responsibility

By Elise Jarvis, JTA • Published February 22, 2012

By Elise Jarvis JTA   NEW YORK—The recent attacks against Israeli diplomats abroad, which are suspected to have been carried out by Iran or its proxies, and the recent series of high-profile anti-Semitic incidents in the United States have raised...

Jewish groups slam anti-Semitism in Venezuela presidential race

JTA • Published February 21, 2012

Jewish groups condemned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for anti-Semitic attacks by government-controlled media on the opposition's presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski. The Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in separate...

Good cop advocacy marked Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi’s The Israel Project

By Uriel Heilman, JTA • Published February 14, 2012

NEW YORK -- Here's what the international Jewish media conspiracy looks like: Two men and four women, all clad in dark suits, sitting around a table in a windowless conference room in a nondescript office in midtown Manhattan. Together they run a global...

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