The 2020 Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series begins Jan. 26 with “Who Will Write Our History,” the first of 11 films, which will include introductions and post-screening discussions on many issues important to the Jewish community. In...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 30, 2019
As Julie Williams speaks about her volunteer work, the message emblazoned on the wall behind her at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center says as much as she can about why she does what she does. “Change begins with me,” it reads. “This is...
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...
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...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 21, 2018
Spinning for good When Lory Cooper won a private party at Cyclebar, an indoor spinning and cycling franchise with a location in Creve Coeur, she started brainstorming some ideas to make the event a fundraiser. “I wanted to do something that was meaningful...
The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be“Phoenix,” screening at 1 p.m. June 25 in the Holocaust Museum’s theatre in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. A brilliant performance...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 22, 2017
Sara Najman Wolf, described as the “Matriarch of the survivor community” by Jean Cavender, director of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, and who worked with her late husband Leo to help establish the museum, died May 12. She was 89, and a longtime...
More than $3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to 24 winners of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center’s 15th annual Art and Writing Contest at an awards ceremony at 7 p.m. Monday, May 15, in the Holocaust Museum theater in the Jewish Federation...
By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2017
Before he drew Horton the elephant faithfully hatching an egg, Dr. Seuss drew cartoons about Adolf Hitler and the deadly threat his Third Reich posed to the Jews of Europe.Appearing in the now-defunct New York newspaper PM, Seuss — aka Theodor Geisel...
The April film program in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be a combination of three short films, screening at 1 p.m. on April 30 in the Holocaust Museum’s theater in the Jewish Federation building, 12 Millstone Campus...
“Survivors and Witnesses in Our Community” will be the focus of the annual Yom HaShoah commemoration at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 23 at Congregation B’nai Amoona, 324 S. Mason Road. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts...
