By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published February 15, 2017
It wasn’t the sort of question you typically hear at an Israel advocacy event in the United States. But many of the more than 130 Christians gathered Sunday in Ellisville applauded when an audience member asked two Israeli speakers: Do the “Jewish...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 4, 2012
A few weeks ago, an unsolicited book, “They Thought for Themselves: Ten Amazing Jews,” by Sid Roth, arrived at the homes of an unknown number of St. Louis area Jewish residents. No one seems to know how many copies of the 237-page paperback were...
JERUSALEM -- Israel will increase the number of immigrants from Ethiopia for the next several months after bringing in many fewer than it had promised. Some 1,000 Falash Mura, Ethiopians whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity, will be...
Michael Frazier is the winner of BBYO’s AZA Oratory contest, the results of which were announced at BBYO’s International Convention 2012 taking place this week in Atlanta, Ga. He addressed the prompt: “Am I a Jewish American or American Jew? Jewish...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 14, 2011
Tolstoy's famous quote from "Anna Karenina" that, "All happy families are alike" but "each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is an apt observation for the thermo-nuclear family depicted in "End Days." Deborah Zoe Laufer's play opens the 15th season...
There are millions of Americans who want to kill science, including some who have announced they are running for President of our dear nation. And this is not in any way a good thing.These Americans of course don't see it that way. They'll gladly...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 20, 2010
As Reverend Michael Witt first began to study the details of Nostra Aetate, the watershed 1965 Papal declaration that clarified the Catholic Church's relationship with other faiths, particularly the Jews, it had a familiar ring to it. In a sense, he'd...
