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

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Jewish groups: Get listed in the ‘Guide to Jewish Life’ directory

Published June 23, 2016

The Jewish Light is currently preparing its annual Oy! Magazine Guide to Jewish Life and is seeking new Jewish organizations and congregations that were not listed in last year’s Guide to Jewish Life. The Guide serves as a directory for the organized...

New approach in connecting families to Israel

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 23, 2012

“Family Feud” it is not but area Jewish families are certainly getting themselves into the game this summer — and building a connection to Israel at the same time. “It’s a new approach to Jewish programming that we’re really excited to try,”...

Israeli lawmakers inaugurate Diaspora caucus

JTAPublished March 21, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israeli lawmakers from across the political spectrum launched a caucus to strengthen relations with Diaspora Jewry. At least 40 Knesset members have joined the ad hoc committee co-founded by coalition chairman Zeev Elkin of the Likud Party...

 

Natan Sharansky on funding, identity building, and democracy

By Jacob Kamaras/JointMedia News ServicePublished March 16, 2012

After spending nine years in the Soviet Gulag, Natan Sharansky learned not to get too caught up in current events. “You have to look at [the world] from the perspective of the history of tens or sometimes even hundreds of years, and that’s what gives...

New aid going to Greek Jewish community

JTAPublished February 28, 2012

JERUSALEM -- The Jewish Agency will provide emergency aid to the Jewish community of Greece facing a serious financial crisis. The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel on Monday voted to grant about $1 million over two years to help Greece's...

Phillip Grossman, 95, and wife Dorothy, 93, of Baltimore, Md.,
on a Nefesh BNefesh flight to Israel on their way to becoming one
of the oldest couples to ever immigrate to Israel, Feb. 14,
2012.

Couple married 71 years makes aliyah

JTAPublished February 14, 2012

JERUSALEM -- A Baltimore couple married 71 years is believed to be the oldest couple to make aliyah. Phillip and Dorothy Grossman, 95 and 93 respectively, made aliyah Tuesday on a Nefesh B'Nefesh group flight in cooperation with the Ministry of Immigrant...

Opening day of the General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of
North America in Denver, Nov. 6, 2011. ( Eric Stephenson for
JFNA)

At GA, Federation plan for overseas seen as blow to Jewish Agency

By URIEL HEILMAN, JTA, DENVERPublished November 9, 2011

After a decades-long partnership that saw the Jewish Agency for Israel serve as the official, exclusive Zionist arm of North America's Jewish community federations, the federation system is getting ready to date other partners. But Jewish Agency officials...

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