The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival continues its 22nd year with two upcoming events at the Jewish Community Center’s Mirowitz Performing Arts Building.At 4 p.m. Sunday, July 16, the festival will screen “Monkey Business: The Curious Adventures of...
The Jewish Community Center installed Felicia Malter as its new board chair during the J’s annual meeting in May.“[Malter] has been at the front of many of the most important decisions we’ve made at the J in the past few years. I’m thrilled to...
By Patricia Corrigan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2017
Growing up in Jefferson City, Ashley Stockman remembers serving as a support person for her grandmother, who had multiple sclerosis. “I walked to her house every day after school, and I spent summers with her,” Stockman said. “Jerry” Branson Baker...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 22, 2017
Finding commonalities and appreciating differences were the guiding themes for the Jewish community’s interfaith Iftar event last week (June 14) at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex.“As a sign of our friendship and strengthening...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 25, 2017
The 22nd annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival takes place June 4-8 at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. With 16 films from nine countries, it is truly “a global film feast,” according to organizers. The festival will present seven narrative features...
The Jewish Film Society will screen the documentary “Back Door Channels” at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 21 at the Jewish Community Center’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. The film is about the interplay between the official government...
“Walk in Support of Israel,” which honors the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, will take place Sunday, May 21. At noon, participants will gather at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Drive,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2017
Ask the president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis about Michael Staenberg’s most valuable contribution to his agency, and the first answer Andrew Rehfeld gives doesn’t mention the philanthropist’s help with the $3.5 million renovation...
By Rabbi James Stone Goodman
• Published April 13, 2017
The week I am writing this, we launched another effort to break the stigma surrounding mental illness in St. Louis (March 19 at the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis), the week after a well-circulated article appeared in The New York Times (“Table...
Join other families for the fourth annual community family Passover seder at the Jewish Community Center, led by Rabbi Brad Horwitz and musical guest Sharol Brickman at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 11 at the Staenberg Family Complex, 2 Millstone Campus Drive....
In response to the recent bomb threats made against Jewish institutions around the nation, including the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis, Focus Features will offer an advance screening of its new film, “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” as a way to bring...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 15, 2017
When the Minnesota Opera asked Ricky Ian Gordon some years ago to compose an opera based on John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” Gordon had not read the book and didn’t want to say so. “I lied and said I needed time to reread it,” Gordon...
