The Kranzberg Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, has awarded $71,000 in grants to 16 Jewish programs for children, teens and young adults in St. Louis.The Foundation received requests totaling more than $187,000...
Holocaust Survivor Eva Perlman will share her extraordinary life story at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. Her talk is hosted by Hillel at Washington University and the Hillel Leadership Council in commemoration of Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). ...
St. Louis resident Rachel Miller, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child, will share her story of courage and resilience at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Miller’s...
Hillel at Washington University will host a vigil and program in memory of the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.A candle lighting will be followed by a panel...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published November 16, 2018
During a recent trip to the West Bank, Kedar Bell and other Washington University students traveled to Ramallah to meet with a Palestinian Authority official. “He was being very hospitable,” Bell, a sophomore, recalls. “I don’t know if that was...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 10, 2018
Susan Godwin-Kofkoff remembers her uncle Martin Silk as a colorful, religious man, a collector of clocks and antiques who loved being Jewish. “He wanted to be able to give to people who were in need,” she said.Today, the foundation that bears his...
Editor's note: The location for this event has been changed since this article was originally published. The event will be held in Hillman Hall, Room 70. Parking is available at WashU Hillel.As part of national Domestic Violence Awareness month, expert...
Hillel’s Jewish College Bound website seeks to connect incoming Jewish college students directly to Hillel staff at the college or university they will attend. Families can send the name, email address and college of the student in their life. Their...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published May 4, 2017
An exhibit last week at Washington University produced by a controversial group of former Israeli soldiers led some Jewish students to accuse the campus Hillel of stifling critical views of Israel. Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis declined...
Hillel at Washington University is among 10 campuses nationwide selected to participate in Hillel International's "Excellence Accelerator" program. This is the pilot year of the program, which will provide increased resources designed to support campus...
We’ll endeavor to put up information in a broader context because we know that very little news is born at the moment it comes across our wire.— Will McAvoy, HBO’s “The Newsroom,” Episode 3, “The 112th Congress.”Andrew Rehfeld will join...
By design, the Passover seder is perhaps the paradigmatic family holiday. Relatives, distant and close, friends, even strangers crowd around the dinner table to laugh, eat and of course to read the Haggadah, telling the story of the Israelites Exodus...
