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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

St. Louis' stories from the Holocaust: Marie Cori

St. Louis’ stories from the Holocaust: Marie Cori

Published April 20, 2021

Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...

Philanthropists I.E. Millstone (left) and Michael Staenberg look on during a 2007 groundbreaking for the Jewish Community Center’s planned Staenberg Family Complex. The J’s new fitness and wellness building would open in 2009, marking the start of a series of major construction and renovation projects of Jewish community institutions on the Millstone Campus during the past decade. File photo: Mike Sherwin

Decade of transformation reshapes Millstone Campus

BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished January 9, 2020

Filled with energy-friendly features such as water-retaining xeriscaping, high-performance fluorescent lighting and thermal equalizers in the gym, the Staenberg Family Complex was a model of efficiency. Though the complex’s footprint was smaller than...

Holocaust Museum to screen restored Yiddish film

Published November 15, 2017

The next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series will be the St. Louis premiere of “A Brivele der Mamen” (A Letter to Mother), screening at 1 p.m. Nov. 26 in the Holocaust Museum’s theater at the Jewish Federation building,...

New exhibit at Holocaust Museum and Learning Center

Published October 27, 2016

“Fabric of Survival: Images of the Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz” will be the next exhibition at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. It opens Nov. 3 and remains on view until Nov. 30. In 1977, at the age of 50,...

Entries sought from students for HMLC art, writing contest

Published February 17, 2016

The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2016 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 13th year that...

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