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

Former St. Louisan Leah Soibel founded Fuente Latina (‘Latin Source’), a nonprofit based in Israel that works to educate Spanish speakers about Israel and the Middle East. 

Bringing Israel to Spanish speakers worldwide

By Carol Wolf Solomon, Special to the Jewish LightPublished February 15, 2017

So what was a nice Jewish girl from St. Louis doing traveling the Arab world dressed in a hijab, armed with a notebook and tape recorder?  If you were Leah Soibel in 2001, it was to learn how public opinion is formed and shaped on Israel, the Middle...

Arab and Jewish students at a Hand in Hand school in Israel. Photo: YouTube screenshot

Israeli schools build bridges between Jews and Arabs

Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished February 15, 2017

Rebecca Bardach and her husband, Eliot Goldstein, grew up on opposite coasts — she in Berkeley, Calif.; he in Silver Springs, Md. — attending a combination of Jewish day and public schools. After each made aliyah in the late 1990s and married, they...

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