To help make it easy for local students to register Chabad on Campus has opened a telephone ‘warmline’ (available during waking hours). The line will be answered by local trip experts who will help with the trip registration process and answer questions....
By Rabbi Hershey Novack
• Published February 23, 2021
A recent article in The Atlantic (“The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship”) focuses on the decline of interactions among “weak social ties” during the COVID-19 pandemic. This refers to the people we know casually – the people...
The Kranzberg Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, has awarded $71,000 in grants to 16 Jewish programs for children, teens and young adults in St. Louis.The Foundation received requests totaling more than $187,000...
Nine professionals have been chosen as honorees for the Annual JProStl Recognition Event, which will take place Thursday, Jan. 28, from 1 to 2 p.m. online. The theme of the program is “Seeing the Silver Lining.” JProStl, an initiative of the Jewish...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published August 30, 2018
Growing up the daughter of a modern Orthodox rabbi and attending Block Yeshiva High School, Dodi Smason felt “a strong Jewish identity,” she said.So after graduating high school in 2009 and starting at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Smason...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published September 27, 2017
A Torah was released from Barnes-Jewish Hospital in early 2016 and sent to Israel for treatment.After at least 50 years in the hospital, the scroll was in bad shape. The ink and parchment had degraded to the point where it could no longer be used.“A...
Chabad on Campus has planned a variety of summer programs, including Shabbat dinners, social barbecues, Torah classes and a Shabbaton.“Summer is an effective time to engage college-age students,” Rabbi Hershey Novack, director and spiritual leader...
Chabad’s Shofar Corp — a group of trained shofar-blowing volunteers — will visit individuals who for reasons of their limited mobility will be unable to attend services and hear the shofar sounded on Rosh Hashanah Oct. 3 and 4. Requests for visits...
Suffering seniorsLately I haven’t been able to stay on task at all. I start something and then get easily distracted. Focusing on conversations seems a chore and my eyes gloss over when reading anything deeper than People magazine. Mostly all I want...
Chabad on Campus is hoping to make Passover more enjoyable for students and young adults in St. Louis by hosting communal seders this year on the first and second nights of Passover — Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23.The seders will be held at...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 9, 2016
In order to increase Jewish presence and, over time, grow admission among Jewish students, Chabad on Campus has funded a new part-time staff position to ramp up Jewish activities at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.Esther “Esty” Munk was hired...
Chabad on Campus staff will participate in numerous involvement fairs, including: • UMSL Student EXPO, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at the UMSL Quad • Washington University's Freshman Move-In Day, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 at...
