Local community groups have organized several events featuring renowned educator, speaker and author Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin. Riskin's contributions to Israel and to world Jewry have made him one of the leading voices of today's Modern Orthodox Jewish...
The prestigious Norman A. Stack Community Relations Award will be presented to Fr. Richard Peddicord, President of Aquinas Institute of Theology, and S. Carla Mae Streeter, longtime Aquinas faculty member, at the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)...
Leading up to Yom Ha'atzmaut on May 10, the Jewish Community Relations Council is asking the community to create an online video that answers one of three questions: Why do I support Israel? How do I support Israel? How can we advocate for Israel? Finished...
Just in time for Mother's Day, the Jewish Environmental Initiative (JEI) and its teen group are sponsoring a native plant sale and rain barrel raffle. The sale will take place at B'nai El Congregation and the Saul Mirowitz Day School-Reform Jewish Academy,...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published March 23, 2011
Local, national and international efforts to rescue the remaining 7,000 or more Ethiopian Jews and bring them to Israel was a featured topic at last week's Jewish Community Relations Council meeting, which was attended by about 60 people at Shaare Zedek...
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and Dr. Lawrence J. Welch, the Director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, met recently with Jewish community leaders at the Jewish Federation Building at a meeting facilitated...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published August 18, 2010
An expert on Israel and the Middle East says he is hopeful that face-to-face talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be announced soon and that the campaign to de-legitimize Israel through boycotts, divestments and sanctions requires a...
BY GERALD P. GREIMAN & BATYA ABRAMSON-GOLDSTEIN
• Published August 4, 2010
In a blog post reprinted in the Jewish Light ["Why ‘optimism' on Presbyterian vote?" July 28], our friend, Robert Cohn, focused on the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly that was held in early July. He took great issue with the Israel-related...
On March 21, Congress passed and on March 23, President Barack Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Affordable Care Act"). Soon after, Congress passed and the President signed the related Health Care and Reconciliation...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 14, 2010
The right of workers to organize, reducing poverty in the Jewish community, early childhood education and concerns about nuclear weapons in Iran were among the many topics discussed at a "Labor Seder" last week, hosted by the Jewish Community Relations...
