As director of the intensive care unit at SSM Health St. Mary’s in Richmond Heights and SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Dr. Ronen S. Dudaie sees the sickest of the sick, even in normal times. Nevertheless, he says, dealing with patients infected...

Rabbi Carnie Rose has thought about what summer camp at Congregation B’nai Amoona with no singing would sound like. Some public health officials say that the projection that comes with singing could spray the coronavirus further than normal speech...

Most people in the St. Louis Jewish community can tell you what the Jewish Community Center looks like when it is full or what a particular sanctuary sounds like on Yom Kippur. But Brian Herstig, the new president and CEO of Jewish Federation of St. Louis,...

(JTA) — Nearly all Reform Jewish summer camps, and at least one Conservative camp, will remain closed for the 2020 summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned.The landmark decision, made Thursday afternoon,...

The dark cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic has entered a new and, for many, an even more frustrating phase. While an uncertain future unfolds, some parts of our nation, state and local community are beginning to allow certain businesses to reopen while others...

To help people cope during this time of social distancing, Jan Nykin, a licensed clinical social worker, suggests that people could “say a morning prayer such as Modeh Ani or the Shema or words of prayer from your heart.”Nykin and Sylvia Nissenboim,...

Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg of United Hebrew Congregation joined "PBS NewsHour" host Judy Woodruff Tuesday night for a panel discussion on faith practices during the coronavirus pandemic. The reform rabbi appeared with New York University’s Imam Khalid...

In August 2018, I began a yearlong program called the High School Leadership Program at Cultural Leadership, an organization that focuses on understanding cultural differences and injustices through Jewish and African American lenses. Over the course...

In mid-March, as restaurants and bars were closing or limiting service, Roo Yawitz recognized independent business owners and employees would need some relief.Yawitz, the owner of The Gramophone, a sandwich pub in the Grove neighborhood and a partner...

Imagine that a disease breaks out in the community, actually a family of diseases, perhaps, because it presents differently in many cases. No one knows exactly how it is transmitted, and no one knows who patient zero is. Worst of all, no one knows exactly...

Michal Grinstein-Weiss understands how trauma can have a lasting effect.Her father, Slomo Grinstein, survived the Holocaust by spending years hiding in the woods of Poland while his family was killed at concentration camps.He last attended school when...