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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

 ‘They’re Over Here’ by Frank Roth is included in the upcoming TRADITION! (as uttered by Zero Mostel in “Fiddler on the Roof”)exhibition at the Regional Arts Commission. The event features four Jewish artists and is curated by Buzz Spector, a Jewish artist, writer and curator.  The exhibition runs from Friday, July 13 through August 18.

Nobody like Nora, a new tradition

By Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished July 4, 2012

Of the many things I admired about the late Nora Ephron, it was her candor, even if it meant some people were not going to like her (though it seemed most everyone did). Ephron wrote a lot about what she liked and what she didn’t like, sometimes about...

Mitt Romney speaking to supporters at a rally in Tempe, Ariz., April 20, 2012.

Romney, guarded about his Mormonism, faces the Lieberman challenge

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished June 12, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney’s Lacrosse moment awaits him. The Democratic convention in Los Angeles was where Joe Lieberman made history as the first Jewish candidate on a major ticket on Aug. 17, 2000. But two days later, history came to life in Lacrosse,...

Senators to urge Obama to make Iranian ‘capability’ a red line

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished February 8, 2012

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan slate of U.S. senators will present a resolution calling on the Obama administration to make a "nuclear-weapons capability" by Iran a red line. The non-binding resolution, to be introduced Thursday by Sens. Robert Casey (D-Pa.),...

Lieberman scaled political heights, but wants his legacy to be the Sabbath

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished August 10, 2011

WASHINGTON - Call Joe Lieberman the unlikely evangelical. The Independent senator from Connecticut - and the best-known Orthodox Jew in American politics - is probably more cognizant than most of his Jewish congressional colleagues about rabbinical interdictions...

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