It is highly regrettable that an apparently good deal for the future of the former B’nai El synagogue property and its interested potential buyer, the well-regarded Miriam School, has been derailed by a 3-2 vote of board members in the tiny village...
Former B’nai El leader responds to storyRegarding the Light’s May 1 story on the Miriam Foundation’s purchase and use of the former B’nai El Congregation building, I would like to correct Westwood chairman Fred Berger’s statements in this...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 2, 2019
Miriam Academy, a private high school for students with learning disabilities, has reached an agreement with Congregation Shaare Emeth to purchase the former B’nai El Congregation building, but the deal must still receive zoning approval from the Village...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published October 13, 2016
Reform congregations B’nai El and Shaare Emeth have decided to merge, in a move that marks the official end of one congregation that had largely been gone already.B’nai El was founded in 1852. The congregation’s board voted in 2012 to put up for...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 4, 2012
St. Louis had a year of ups and downs in 2011, saying farewell to some beloved communal leaders, one local congregation and two longtime kosher mainstays. The community pulled together in response to the tragic devastation of the tornado that struck Joplin....
Just in time for Mother's Day, the Jewish Environmental Initiative (JEI) and its teen group are sponsoring a native plant sale and rain barrel raffle. The sale will take place at B'nai El Congregation and the Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy,...
