By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 20, 2011
The air is filled with letters and numbers delivered in an unmistakable Eastern European accent as dozens in the audience sit in rapt attention. As he deftly calls out notations representing a series of moves from a recent game, Boris Gelfand seems to...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR
• Published July 13, 2011
Notes from homeThe Jewish Community Center runs a nifty summer camp and, one of its strong suits is that it exposes campers to young Israelis who serve as counselors there. These young people are part of a program that teaches them to be shlichim - emissaries...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2011
The quest for the next professional executive of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis has begun.Earlier this month, the umbrella agency that represents dozens of local Judaic community institutions opened its search for a new leader with the appointment...
Art is life. Art isn't life.It's life because it's so often from here-and-now reality that artists derive their inspiration. The water lilies Monet obsessed upon were most definitely real. Shakespeare and Moliere poked much fun at the social niceties...
By Madeleine Morgenstern, JTA
• Published June 15, 2011
WASHINGTON - In its first partnership with a faith-based community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working with Jewish organizations to expand awareness of suspicious behavior.The "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign will distribute...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published June 8, 2011
The Jewish Community Center (JCC) is selling 50-plus acres of its land to Pulte Homes for $4.35 million. The acreage, part of the JCC's I. E. Millstone Campus in the Creve Coeur area, is primarily a wooded, undeveloped section of the property but includes...
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 Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 1, 2011
The Jewish Community Center's 16th Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, "A Journey in Film: Jewish Life and History from Around the World," will showcase 13 films from around the world (plus a bonus film, "La Rafle," on Aug. 4). The festival will include...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 18, 2011
Edwardsville resident Tracey Kane was in her early 30s when she first saw her mother Char Sobkowski compete in the St. Louis Senior Olympics.Now, two decades later, she's no longer on the sidelines."When 50 snuck up on me, I thought ‘Well, I'll go ahead...
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...
Is Jewish Film Festival an oxymoron? It seems to me that movies are to Jews what Rogers and Hammerstein were to American musical theater. Take, for example, early movie producers like Louis B. Mayer and Carl Laemmle as well as numerous stars like...
