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...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 4, 2018
Jewish arts, music, food and culture will take center stage during a festival debuting this month. The inaugural Sababa Jewish Arts and Culture Festival will take place Sunday, Oct. 14, at Washington University. Sababa — the word is Modern Hebrew slang...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published September 21, 2018
Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., met with Andrew Rehfeld, president and CEO of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, on Sept. 14 to “discuss policy issues of concern to both him and our community,” Rehfeld wrote on Facebook.The leader of the Jewish nonprofit told...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 30, 2018
That’s a rapGrowing up in southern California in the 1960s and ’70s, Barbara Berson was always looking at the stars — and I don’t mean famous people. Her dad worked for Rockwell and NASA as an aeronautical engineer, helping to design spacecraft...
By Scott Berzon, Jewish Light Executive Director
• Published August 2, 2018
Starting today, the St. Louis Jewish Light is now available to readers free of charge, including those people who want home or office delivery. The major reason for making the change to free distribution from a subscription model is to get the paper...
Board presidents, presidents-elect, clergy, execs/CEOs and heads of schools from throughout the St. Louis Jewish community are invited to attend the Millstone Institute Presidents’ Circle on Monday, Aug. 13. The event will take place from 5:30 to 7...
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...
Address: 12 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, Mo. 63146 | Phone: 314-432-0020 • fax: 314-432-1277 • websites: JFedSTL.org and JewishinStLouis.org Andrew Rehfeld, Ph.D., President & CEOJewish Federation of St. Louis is the Jewish community’s...
The Young Professionals Division of Jewish Federation of St. Louis has created “Knowledge Through Experience,” a program designed to build leadership skills for young Jewish adults to network and improve opportunities for growth in the local community.The...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published May 25, 2017
By the end of June, Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City will hopefully have replaced the headstones that broke apart during the February vandalism and could not be repaired, according to the cemetery director. Among the 154 headstones that...
The Young Professionals Division of Jewish Federation of St. Louis is bringing back their popular happy hour series, “Tap into YPD.” The free happy hours, which give Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s the chance to meet, network and engage in the...
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...
