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

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Poll: Most Israeli Jews keep kosher, practice some Sabbath rituals

JTAPublished January 30, 2012

More than four of every five Israeli Jews believe in God and three-quarters of Israeli Jews keep kosher, according to a survey. The study, conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute's Guttman Center and paid for by the Avi Chai Foundation, also found...

Sense of disenfranchisement for Israeli Arabs as Jewish State turns 63

By Dina Kraft, JTA, JERUSALEMPublished May 11, 2011

In an elegant limestone building in a Jerusalem neighborhood that before 1948 was home to the city's Palestinian elite, a group of Jewish and Arab Israeli academics recently tried to untangle one of Israel's most complex and charged questions: the status...

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