I think it was the violence that got to me, the sudden consciousness that a rampage of deliberate violence had taken place sometime in the past three days on the ground where I now walked. It had left its mark in plain sight.I actually staggered − just...
By Eric Berger & Ellen Futterman, Staff writer & editor
• Published March 1, 2017
Rashidah Rafat, a home health care nurse who is a Muslim-American, came to Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery last week to help with a cleanup organized by Gov. Eric Greitens. She arrived about an hour before the official start time of 3 p.m. and wandered through...
As Philip Weiss, president of Rosenbloom Monument Company, and his crew worked last Wednesday (Feb. 22) to reset most of the 154 headstones at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery that had been toppled, he and I got to talking. Weiss said it would take five guys...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published March 1, 2017
Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim activist, unfortunately did not have to wait long to use extra money from a fundraiser to help with repairs at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City. Less than a week after cemetery staff discovered that 154 headstones...
By Eric Berger, Staff writer
• Published March 1, 2017
After Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced that he would lead a cleanup last week of the vandalism at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, he heard from an unexpected volunteer: Vice President Mike Pence.“The vice president said, ‘I am so inspired by what...
In physics, Isaac Newton told us, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That observation certainly applies to the inspirational response to last week’s horrible desecration of the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City.As...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 22, 2017
Never in recent memory has there been such community wide and even international revulsion over an incident like the savage desecration of the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. Even though it was not immediately clear whether the attack was anti-Semitism...
Clarifications from Jewish FederationThank you for your story on the renovation of Federation’s 35-year-old Kopolow Building and its 20-year-old Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. I would like to clarify two details about our plans.First, while we...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2011
After years of discussions, a new Jewish cemetery in Chesterfield will come into being next month as part of an effort to accommodate the burial needs of certain Jewish converts.Beth Shalom Cemetery is set to be dedicated May 1 in preparation for its...
