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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

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KENA BETANCURPublished December 30, 2019

Suspect in Hanukkah celebration stabbings Thomas Grafton, 37 years old from Greenwood Lake, leaves the Ramapo Town Hall in Airmont, New York after being arrested on December 29, 2019.(Kena Betancur / AFP) 

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SOPA ImagesPublished November 5, 2018

A mourner wearing a Star of David around his neck at the Squirrel Hill memorial service for the victims of the shooting at the neighborhood’s Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 29, 2018. (Matthew Hatcher/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty...

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SOPA ImagesPublished October 28, 2018

Mourners seen holding candles in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, on Oct. 27, 2018. The shooter espoused an anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic ideology online. (Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA Images/LightRocket...

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Spencer PlattPublished July 4, 2018

The June 12, 2014 abduction of three Israeli yeshiva boys in the West Bank, Gil-ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel, and Eyal Yifrach, sparked rallies in Jewish communities worldwide calling for their safe return. Their murdered bodies were found on June 30, 2014....

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Win McNameePublished December 17, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: Alan Gross (L), recently released by Cuban authorities, makes brief remarks with his wife Judy (R) during a press conference at his lawyer's office shortly after arriving in the United States December 17, 2014 in Washington,...

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Win McNameePublished December 17, 2014

Alan Gross, newly freed from a Cuban prison, making brief remarks with his wife, Judy, at a news conference at his lawyer’s office in Washington shortly after arriving in the United States, Dec. 17, 2014. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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