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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

Top Row: Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup and Jerzy Walczak; Bottom Row: Milla Bańkowicz and Oliwier Stańczak in the film In Darkness. 

Film highlights true story of survival in wartime Poland

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished March 14, 2012

The best stories are often true ones, and such is the case with “In Darkness,” from Polish director Agnieszka Holland. The film tells the story of an unexpected partnership between Polish-Jewish families hiding in sewers under a Nazi-occupied town...

Luuk Koole, the manager of Holland’s only kosher butcher,
Slagerij Marcus, says a proposed shechitah ban would make doing
business more expensive. Photo: Alex Weisler/JTA

Dutch slaughter bill threatens religious practices

By Alex Weisler, JTAPublished July 13, 2011

AMSTERDAM - A few streets over from the bookstore where Anne Frank bought her famous diary, the only kosher butcher shop in Holland is bustling. Two employees man the long counter at Slagerij Marcus, pausing from chopping meat to sell customers a bit...

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