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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

Bomb-making material found in Bangkok

JTAPublished January 16, 2012

Bomb-making material was found in a shop near Bangkok amid warning of a possible attack on Israelis. Some 400 boxes of urea and ammonium nitrate hidden in boxes for electric fans were discovered Monday in a store about 30 miles south east of Bangkok....

Torah MiTzions Assi Gastfraind teaches elementary school-age
children during Bais Abrahams Shelanu Hebrew immersion Sunday
school. The children are, from left, Zeev Burton, Amit Kadan, Leor
Michelson, Noa Vilnai, Yoav Sened and Bar Danielli. Photo: Yana
Hotter

Hebrew program targets local Israeli families seeking to keep children fluent

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 11, 2012

Assi Gastfraind has his audience's full attention. As he looks into young faces as bright as the Sunday morning sunlight streaming into this classroom tucked comfortably behind Bais Abraham's sanctuary, every question seems to elicit a sea of eager waving...

American Jews complain about Israeli ads aimed at expats

Ad campaign flare-up obscures bigger challenge: Luring home Israeli expats

By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORKPublished December 7, 2011

A few different sparks led to last week's flare-up over a two-month-old Israeli ad campaign to lure home expatriates in the United States. An ad suggesting that a child of Israelis living in America would mistake Chanukah for Christmas. The claim by an...

Israeli students, holding a sign reading ‘Welfare state now!,
protest outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem against the
high cost of living, Aug. 1. Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90/JTA

With protests, Israelis are seeking revival of welfare state

By Leslie Susser, JTAPublished August 3, 2011

JERUSALEM - The wave of protests sweeping Israel is about much more than the lack of affordable housing: It's a grass-roots demand for the major redistribution of the nation's wealth.In social terms, protesters are calling for a more caring government...

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