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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

Pro-Palestinian group in Canada calls for boycott of Sears over Israeli products,

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

A pro-Palestinian group in Canada has called for a boycott against Sears because it carries Israeli products. Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East asked Sears last month to drop its Israeli products, including Ahava cosmetics and Keter Plastic,...

British diplomats warned against traveling with Israelis

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

British diplomats have been warned against traveling with Israelis or meeting them in public. Ynet reported that the warning from London's Foreign Office Thursday comes following terror attacks against Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. Israeli officials...

Israeli-led team of scientists discovers longevity gene

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

JERUSALEM -- A team of Israeli and U.S. scientists has discovered a gene that increases longevity in mammals. The team, led by Dr. Haim Cohen of Bar-Ilan University's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and including researchers from Hadassah...

Yishai: Tal Law will have to be extended

Published February 23, 2012

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government will have to extend the Tal Law, which allows yeshiva students to delay their military service, until new legislation can be drafted, the country's Interior Minister said. Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai said...

Iran denies part in recent attacks in letter to Security Council

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Iran denied involvement in recent attacks on Israeli diplomats and accused Israel of assassinating its nuclear scientists, in a letter to the United Nations Security Council. Israel has made "unfounded allegations and distortions" against...

Israeli committee approves housing in West Bank’s Shiloh

JTAPublished February 22, 2012

JERUSALEM -- An Israeli government committee approved construction permits for some 500 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh and legalized more than 100 already constructed units. The housing units legalized Wednesday by the Civil Administration...

David M. Grebler

David M. Grebler, 65; headed Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Light boards

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished February 22, 2012

David M. Grebler, highly respected for his leadership of the Missouri/Southern Illinois Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League and as president of the St. Louis Jewish Light Board of Trustees from 2005-2007, died Thursday, Feb. 16, at MD...

Wife of slain Iranian scientist: His goal was ‘annihilation of Israel’

JTAPublished February 22, 2012

The wife of an assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist said that her husband’s “ultimate goal was the annihilation of Israel.” Fatemeh Bolouri Kashani, the wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, told the Fars News Agency in an interview published Tuesday...

Gingrich to address AIPAC

JTAPublished February 22, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich will address the AIPAC policy conference. The former U.S. House of Representatives speaker, who is trailing in the race for the Republican presidential nod, is the first in the GOP field to announce his participation. No date...

In Japan, Israelis bring trauma expertise to tsunami victims

By Boaz Arad, JTAPublished February 22, 2012

SENDAI, Japan—Tears run down the face of Kohata Yuriko as she recalls the events of March 11 last year, when a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Japan in the early afternoon. Shopping for groceries in the small fishing...

Meir Shalev

Author presents clear Bible “Firsts”

By Elaine K. Alexander, Special to the Jewish LightPublished February 22, 2012

Meir Shalev is a prize-winning, Israeli novelist who has now written the second of two books on the Hebrew Bible. "Beginnings: The First Love, the First Hate, the First Dream, Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts" translated by Stuart Schoffman...

McCain bemoans ‘daylight’ between U.S. and Israel over Iran threat

JTAPublished February 22, 2012

JERUSALEM -- The United States and Israel clearly have daylight in their assessment of the threat posed by Iran, U.S. Sen. John McCain said in Jerusalem."There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the threat. Unfortunately,...

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