On Saturday, Jan. 14, the Jewish Community Center and the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival will host Oscar Andrew Hammerstein, the great grandson of Oscar Hammerstein II and author of "The Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family." He will share stories of...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 28, 2011
Looking out over a sea of people in garb ranging from hijabs to yarmulkes to baseball caps, enjoying laughter and conversation with one another over bagels and coffee on a holiday few in the room even celebrate, Batya Abramson-Goldstein couldn't help...
JProStl, the association dedicated to supporting professionals working at Jewish organizations in St. Louis, has announced the 2011 honorees from across the St. Louis Jewish community. They include Career Achievement: Peter Walker (Jewish Family &...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2011
Kathleen Sitzer was braced for the impact but it never came. "Surprisingly, it was extremely positive," she said. "I was all prepared for a lot of flak about it. I didn't get it and I was delighted." It was 2005 and Sitzer, artistic director of the New...
By Larry Levin and Ellen Futterman, Publisher/CEO and EDITOR
• Published June 1, 2011
When we envisioned our new series that combines news analysis with public discussion, we had a working name, News and Views, which described the concept but didn't bring it to life. So when in a working meeting with our friends and partners at the Jewish...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 18, 2011
After more than a decade in St. Louis, a local Jewish leader will be leaving to take a position on the East Coast.Ronit Sherwin, founder of Nishmah: The St. Louis Jewish Women's Project, has accepted a new job as head of the University of Delaware Hillel."I'm...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published December 29, 2010
If like so many of us, you have made the same New Year's resolution for the past decade - eat less, move more - and yet somehow have managed to do the opposite, have we got the program to rock your world.Welcome to the "Lighten Up Weight Loss Challenge,"...
- Mitzvot from the Heart is compiled by Jewish Light Editorial Assistant Elise Krug
• Published August 4, 2010
Stephen Yoffie, United Hebrew Congregation Stephen Yoffie was up to the challenge presented by Chris Horan, director of the JCC Sports Camp. At the end of the first week of camp, Chris told his campers that he would shave his head if they could bring...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 4, 2010
"Imagine This" is an original musical that juxtaposes the story of Jewish Resistance in the notorious Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust with the story of the Jewish Zealots at Masada in Israel 2,000 years earlier. The Zealots held off an entire Roman...
