Former Israel Air Force commander Eliezer Shkedy has confronted a lot of aviation decisions in his life, but none were quite like this. This week, the El Al Airlines CEO faced a fluke airfare that appeared online for three hours on Monday and set off...
By Barry Gilbert, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 8, 2012
“Well those Tel Aviv girls really knock me out,” Matisyahu sings on his new CD, “Spark Seeker.” Well, no, he doesn’t, but “Tel Aviv’n” is such an accessible blast of L.A. cool coming after 10 tracks of self-help aphorisms that it’s easy...
NEW YORK — Two months ago, Miriam Leichtling’s parents lost their jobs within a week of each other.For several months, Leichtling, a New York designer who has led several organized trips to Israel, had been agonizing over how to scrape together enough...
By Uri Fintzy, 6NoBacon
• Published August 7, 2012
SIX DEGREES (NO BACON)/JEWISH CELEBRITY ROUNDUP NEW YORK — Mazel tov to Natalie Portman! The Oscar-winning Jewish starlet tied the knot Saturday night with Benjamin Millepied, whom she met while rehearsing for the blockbuster “Black Swan.” In a...
JERUSALEM — The attack this week along the Israel-Egypt border poses dilemmas both for Israel and for the new Egyptian president. Should Israel accede to pressure to modify its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt and allow more Egyptian troops into the Sinai...
LONDON -- Was the only Israeli on the International Olympic Committee instrumental in stopping a tribute to the Munich 11 at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Games? In the past few weeks, a war of words has erupted between the official, Alex Gilady,...
JERUSALEM – Mitt Romney may have caused a storm of criticism by asserting that “culture makes all the difference” between the success of the Israeli economy and the Palestinians’ economic struggles. But the near future of the Palestinian economy...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 2, 2012
So what are you reading this summer?When we posed that question to a number of St. Louis area rabbis and Jewish professionals, we received a wide variety of enthusiastic responses. In some cases, the books choices were light and breezy — kind of how...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 1, 2012
William B. “Bill” Eiseman, Jr., co-founder of the U.S. Tape and Label Corp., a past president of Temple Israel and a longtime member of the New Mount Sinai Cemetery Association, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at St. Mary’s Health Center in Richmond...
Back to School successOn Sunday, July 22, I was witness to the heartwarming scene of the St. Louis community coming together to help our neighbors during the annual Back-to-School! Store, a project of the National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis Section,...
I believe that the Editorial Board of the St. Louis Jewish Light owes its subscribers and readers a profound and sincere apology for running the shameful, incendiary full-page advertisement by the Emergency Committee for Israel in its July 25, 2012 issue....
Congregation Temple Israel is partnering with the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL) to introduce a new education program to St. Louis and the Midwest. The ISJL is a trans-denominational Jewish nonprofit that provides educational,...
