One of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy, the separation of church and state, is facing new assaults on the public-school front.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2017 in the case out of Columbia, Mo., known as Trinity Lutheran that tax money...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 15, 2017
Remember how in high school you squeaked by on the final exam in Latin or trigonometry but you felt that it really didn’t matter because you weren’t going to use any of that stuff in your real life anyway?That’s kind of how Betsy DeVos won confirmation...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 15, 2017
Rebecca Bardach and her husband, Eliot Goldstein, grew up on opposite coasts — she in Berkeley, Calif.; he in Silver Springs, Md. — attending a combination of Jewish day and public schools. After each made aliyah in the late 1990s and married, they...
By Carol Wolf Solomon, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 15, 2017
So what was a nice Jewish girl from St. Louis doing traveling the Arab world dressed in a hijab, armed with a notebook and tape recorder? If you were Leah Soibel in 2001, it was to learn how public opinion is formed and shaped on Israel, the Middle...
Kol Rinah Early Childhood Center, Kol Rinah Religious School and NewCAJE are raising funds on Giving Tuesday (Nov. 29) to create Makom HaKadosh, The Holy Space Outdoor Classroom at Kol Rinah. The project’s fundraising goal is $2,500, in order to create...
Parents are invited to enjoy a night out and learn how they can help their children grow to become curious learners and ethical leaders at “All the Right Ingredients” workshop from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 19, 2016
The Association of American Medical Colleges honored Dr. Stuart Slavin in 2013 with its highest teaching award for his work restructuring St. Louis University’s four-year medical school curriculum to help students better cope with anxiety.Now Slavin...
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
• Published October 19, 2016
Ask any teacher. Ask any informed parent. Educational standards are in free fall across America, perhaps around the world. And in St. Louis, an extraordinary institution has closed its doors. Block Yeshiva High School did not come into existence as something...
In an effort to educate members of the Jewish community about Amendment 6, a statewide ballot initiative that would amend the Missouri Constitution to require certain restrictive forms of photo identification in order to vote, the Jewish Community Relations...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 4, 2016
Kol Rinah has hired an assistant rabbi who will join its shul this summer.“The Jewish community has been so friendly and incredibly welcoming, embracing my family and some of the ideas I have for the synagogue community,” Rabbi Scott Shafrin said....
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2016
As the school year winds to a close, a handful of seventh-graders at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School are working to help educate their peers in the community on the tragedy of the Holocaust.“I’ve learned a lot about how the survivors have been...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 13, 2016
Dalia Fadila, a prominent Israeli Arab college administrator and founder of the Q-schools program for teaching English to Arab youth and adults, sees education as a “tool of empowerment” and as a way for Israeli Arabs to cease seeing themselves as...
