ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published January 20, 2022
The Student to Student program, founded 30 years ago by the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis, is going national. It will be headquartered in St. Louis, under the auspices of a new nonprofit, Student to Student Inc.
“Given the bigotry,...
The Jewish Community Relations Council, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of St. Louis' Israel Center, is proud to present the Invest in Peace Series, which will provide monthly virtual programs that highlight organizations or initiatives within...
GALIT LEV-HARIR and TRACI GOLDSTEIN
• Published May 14, 2021
Over the past several years, leadership from St. Louis Friends of Israel (SLFI) has met with the Jewish Community Relations Council on several occasions to express our view that JCRC promotes a skewed left-wing bias to the community in its formal communications...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published April 9, 2021
Maharat Rori Picker-Neiss, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, has been invited to speak on a panel at the virtual J Street National Conference April 18-19. The 2019 J Street Conference had over 4,000 attendees, including...
When the COVID-19 virus stormed in nearly a year ago, not everyone was affected equally. People of color and other minority groups were the most vulnerable to an inadequate and unfair health care system, a system with cracks in its foundation rooted in...
Nine professionals have been chosen as honorees for the Annual JProStl Recognition Event, which will take place Thursday, Jan. 28, from 1 to 2 p.m. online. The theme of the program is “Seeing the Silver Lining.” JProStl, an initiative of the Jewish...
Election results this year show the deep socio-political divide among demographics and identities. Regardless of the outcome each of us desired, this is not a proud moment. The United States continues to be deeply divided, and it is apparent in election...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published September 24, 2020
The question from the Catholic high school student to the Jewish students could have been from any Student to Student presentation in the two decades since the program’s inception.“How do you go about choosing which branch of Judaism you belong to?”...
By Cheryl Adelstein, Nancy Solomon Desloge & Rachel Thimangu
• Published July 30, 2020
So many of us feel powerless these days. Two inter-connected and seemingly intractable issues — the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and the call for racial equity — challenge our Jewish values of preserving human life and protecting the vulnerable. It’s...
Nine years after a small group of Jews and Muslims first gathered on Christmas Day to work side-by-side in community service, the annual interfaith effort returns in 2019 with a renewed focus on the popular program’s core mission: building strong community.The...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published November 14, 2019
The U.S. Army was monitoring a largely Jewish group of protesters who traveled in August from St. Louis to Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla., to protest the planned detention of migrant children at the facility, according to a report in The Intercept.The digital...
BY PAUL KRAVITZ, MAHARAT RORI PICKER NEISS & KAREN SHER
• Published October 10, 2019
When we bear witness to acts of injustice and inhumanity against our fellow human beings, we have a responsibility to tell their stories. When we bear witness to a system that criminalizes children, women and men fleeing violence, corruption and poverty,...
