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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

Changes part of new vision for CAJE, JFed

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished August 8, 2012

Significant changes are in store this fall for the relationship between the local Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis.Starting Sept. 1, the Federation will move three programs over to the Judaic educational...

Pictured are the 1989 graduates of CAJE’s Jewish Community High School (now called JOLT). Seated: David Bianco and Brian Gold. First row: Eddie Weinstein, Ken Meyer, David Zarkowsky, Todd Schneider, David Paskin. Back row: Rabbi Arnold D. Samlan, Byron Kerman, Mike Mishkin, Louis Mendlowitz and Rabbi Howard M. Graber.

In the beginning: CAJE

BY ROBERT A. COHNPublished March 7, 2012

How time truly does fly when you are having fun! It is really hard to believe but March 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE), which started off with a modest set of goals but emerged into a...

CAJE announces new adult education classes

Published January 25, 2012

Central Agency for Jewish Education will offer three new adult education classes in February at the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive in Creve Coeur: • "Reading the Gospel Through a Jewish Lens": This course is designed to...

Scholarship opportunities for teen travel to Israel

Published January 4, 2012

The Central Agency for Jewish Education and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis announce the availability of the following scholarship opportunities for teen travel to Israel:• The Stuart I. Pessin Fund will award two outstanding teenagers merit- based...

CAJE plans CHOICES Jewish College Fair

Published November 30, 2011

The 15th annual Jewish College Fair for High School students and their families: "CHOICES Jewish College Fair-Looking at Colleges through Jewish Eyes." will be held Sunday, Dec. 11, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Fifty-eight colleges and universities will be represented...

Lori Wishne, left, and Sonia Dobinsky holding their Goldstein
Service Awards given by the Jewish Federation.

Jewish Federation honors Sonia Dobinsky, Lori Wishne with Goldstein Service Award

Published November 23, 2011

Sonia Dobinsky, Executive Director of the Central Agency for Jewish Education, and Lori Wishne, Jewish Federation Assistant Director of Development, are recipients of the 2011 Fred A. Goldstein Memorial Service Award for professional excellence. Bob Millstone,...

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