By Judith Newmark, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 25, 2019
This story was originally published on April 25, 2019, and is being republished to honor Ed Asner.
Lou Grant wasn’t Jewish.
He was Roman Catholic, opines the one person who really ought to know: actor Ed Asner.
Asner famously portrayed...
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...
St. Louis, along with numerous U.S. and Israeli cities, observed Yom Hashoah, the “Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust” this past week. Signed into formal law by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in 1953, it is a yearly reminder for each of us to...
By Dale Singer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 8, 2017
With four grandparents who survived the horrors of Nazi Germany, Rachel Berger is no stranger to the stories from the Holocaust.And when she came to Washington University from New York City, she was one of 13 students who took an intensive freshman class...
Washington University alumnus Sanford “Buddy” Lebman, a corporal in the 445th Heavy Duty Ordnance attached to the 42nd Infantry Division that entered and helped liberate Dachau concentration camp in Germany in April 1945, will share his reflections...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 26, 2016
The moment the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League Championship Series Saturday night to advance to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, my husband left the room and went outside. He stayed there for more than a half-hour while I gleefully...
“The Christian Churches’ Complicity in the Holocaust” will be the focus of the third annual Marilyn (z’’l) and Arthur Gale Family Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15 at the Jewish Federation building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. Robert Ericksen...
At a memorial in Rwanda to the victims of the 1994 genocide, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week wrote in the visitors’ book that he was “reminded of the haunting similarities to the genocide of our own people.”Certainly all instances...
By Hannah Snidman, Staff writer
• Published July 6, 2016
Elie Wiesel wanted no one to forget the atrocities of the Holocaust, during which six millions Jews were slaughtered, including his own parents and younger sister. As a survivor, a human activist and Nobel laureate, Wiesel spoke and wrote eloquently about...
