Make St. Louis a leader in financing Jewish day school education Aryeh Klapper (May 23 commentary, “Sustaining day school education, financially and morally”) is correct in criticizing the current financing mechanism for Jewish day schools. However,...
By Sarah Cohen, John Burroughs High School
• Published March 19, 2012
The social lives of both Jewish and non-Jewish seventh graders expand tremendously as they are invited to classmates’ bar and bat mitzvahs. However, recently these students’ social calendars have begun to overflow as their non-Jewish classmates throw...
Legislation that would ban the application of religious or foreign law in marriage, divorce or custody cases stalled in Florida's state Senate. The Senate failed to bring the measure to a vote by March 9, the end of the current legislative session. It...
Jewish gravestones were vandalized at a veteran's cemetery in Florida. At least 13 tombstones decorated with a Star of David, gravesites of Jewish veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, were toppled or dug out of the ground over the weekend at the...
An investigation has been opened into anti-Semitic messages left at a kosher restaurant in South Florida. The FBI and the Broward County Sheriff's Office are conducting an investigation into a series of hate messages left at the Mozart Café in Deerfield...
The Mandel Foundation has donated $5 million to the West Palm Beach Library Foundation. The library will be renamed the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach. Foundation representatives will serve on several of its committees. “A public library...
WASHINGTON -- The Florida House of Representatives passed legislation opposed by Jewish and Muslim groups that would ban the application of religious or foreign law in marriage, divorce or custody cases. The bill is one of a number around the country...
A U.S. federal judge has ordered a painting seized from a Florida museum where it was on loan returned to the heirs of its former Jewish owner. The 16th Century painting "Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue" by Girolamo de' Romani was ordered...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney won the Florida primary by a wide margin. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, finished with 47 percent of the vote on Tuesday to easily outdistance former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had 32...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney was projected to win the Florida primary by a wide margin. Major media outlets handed the state GOP primary race to the former Massachusetts governor as soon as polls closed at 8 p.m. eastern time Tuesday. With 74 percent of...
WASHINGTON-Barack Obama won't show up on the vote tallies after polls close in Florida's Republican primary on Jan. 31, but the president's supporters already are waging a fight for the Sunshine State. Democrats are rolling out a campaign to rival any...
