BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 16, 2019
Full disclosure: I have known Irl Solomon for at least 65 years, dating back to our days as fellow students at the Congregation Shaare Emeth Religious School and as classmates at University City High School (Class of 1957).If there is a consistent thread...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published February 21, 2019
St. Louisan Tova Braitberg’s father and grandfather tried to shield her from some of the painful parts of their lives.She never heard her grandfather, Gregor Braitberg, talk about how performing music helped him survive the Holocaust. She thinks it...
This year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15 at United Hebrew Congregation, 13788 Conway Road. The community-wide Holocaust Remembrance Day event will focus on the theme of “#WeRemember: To honor the past and protect...
The Jewish Federation of St. Louis, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center each released statements last week expressing concern about President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order temporarily restricting...
More than $3,100 in cash prizes was awarded to 38 winners of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s 14th Annual Art and Writing Contest at an awards ceremony May 9.There were nearly 950 submissions to the contest, from students in middle schools...
