By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published May 30, 2019
When in doubt, go ask Alice.“That’s our motto around here,” says Ashley Stockman, director of the Adult Day Center at the Jewish Community Center. “Alice always has the correct response and, if not, she will do the research and not stop until...
Join the entire St. Louis Jewish community on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. to honor and remember those who have sacrificed for the State of Israel with a special ceremony in the J’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. Then, the following...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 17, 2019
“I’m not a genius,” playwright and director Aaron Posner insists. “But I get to work with geniuses all the time.”There’s probably something wrong with both parts of that remark. In the first place, plenty of people would gladly bestow a “genius”...
By Xena Wolf, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 10, 2019
It is 10:30 on a recent Friday morning at the Jewish Community Center, and eight senior adults sit in a small circle—though the conversations are so lively that it feels like a much larger crowd. “Hello, time travelers,” Miles Bledsoe of St. Louis’s...
To promote breast cancer awareness, the Jewish Community Center’s Sharsheret program will hold “Pink Out at the J on Oct. 28. The event is Sharsheret’s annual group exercise “marathon” and community-building event.Sharsheret exists to help women...
The Jewish Community Center is seeking donations of books through Aug. 1 for its summer used book sale, which takes place Aug. 12-16. Donated books may be dropped off at the J’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. The sale’s...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 23, 2018
What does a film about Israeli baseball, a biopic about a beautiful, brainy Hollywood movie star, and a Hungarian film noir have in common? They are all playing at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Community Center’s 23rd annual...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 26, 2018
Book dealSometimes when it rains it really does pour — in a good way. Last week, Amy Pakett got her share of April showers when she learned she had been named Director of Literary and Jewish Arts at the Jewish Community Center, which includes overseeing...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published April 11, 2018
In one of the most shameful episodes of Jewish history, the astoundingly brilliant Baruch de Spinoza was railroaded into a harsh cherem, or excommunication, from the Jewish religion in the very Talmud Torah Congregation in Amsterdam he was once considered...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published October 11, 2017
Morris H. Sterneck, a longtime community leader who was a past president of the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Community Center, died Wednesday, Oct. 4, after a brief illness. He was 84 and a longtime resident of greater St. Louis.Morris Herschel Sterneck...
