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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

Jimmy Koppel

Upcoming college graduate’s entrepreneurial goals boosted by $100k grant

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 2, 2012

When he was 10 years old, Jimmy Koppel decided he wanted to create video games when he grew up. Just a decade later, Koppel has been there and done that – and now he has been named one of 20 young entrepreneurs to receive $100,000 to work on his new...

Israeli-led team of scientists discovers longevity gene

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

JERUSALEM -- A team of Israeli and U.S. scientists has discovered a gene that increases longevity in mammals. The team, led by Dr. Haim Cohen of Bar-Ilan University's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and including researchers from Hadassah...

David M. Grebler

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

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished 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...

Letters to the Editor, week of Feb. 22, 2012

Published February 22, 2012

Author leaves lasting memories for St. Louisan After the tragic and untimely death of author Jeffrey Zaslow, as possibly the person in St. Louis who has known Jeff the longest, he is compelling me to write for a newspaper-again. The last and only other...

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