By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 1, 2021
After the Washington Nationals won the World Series in 2019, Abby Prywitch and her fellow student journalists at Parkway Central High School brainstormed an idea about an alum they would like to interview: Max Scherzer, a star pitcher on the Nationals.“Right...
At the end of the school day Thursday, March 12, I called my yearbook representative on my way home from work. I knew that life as I knew it was about to change because of the coronavirus, and I needed to prepare myself, my family and my school family...
We don’t normally like to toot our own horn, but since these are hardly normal times, please indulge us.Remember the story about the five members of the Weinhaus family who all tested positive for the coronavirus? You may have seen it on television...
I’ve said my goodbyes to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Not to the newspaper, but to the building at 900 North Tucker Blvd. where the paper’s essence has come to life and taken shape for the past 60 years, a third of them with me working in it.
This...
By Robert A. Cohn & Dale Singer
• Published July 18, 2019
Editor’s Note: With the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo 11 lunar mission and the Woodstock musical festival this summer, Jewish Light editorial writers Robert A. Cohn, 79, and Dale Singer, 70, take a break from crafting a traditional editorial to look...
Almost daily, depressing headlines report the sorry state of the news business and what its decline will mean for a public that needs to be more informed than ever.The triple threat of rapid growth of online media, prohibitive costs of publishing newspapers...
The St. Louis Jewish Light and staff writer Eric Berger have won two Rockower Awards given by the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA) for work published last year. AJPA honors excellence in Jewish journalism and represents Jewish media organizations,...
It must have slipped my mind that the Washington Post and The New York Times reporters have a secret handshake to let one another know that they are part of the same tribe known as “The Dishonest Media.”I’m wondering whether I have amnesia or if...
The first and most important thing I want to accomplish in this, my last column as publisher/CEO of the Jewish Light, is to thank everyone who has been so instrumental in our work — readers, subscribers, donors, foundations, advertisers, agencies, synagogues...
The St. Louis Jewish Light is accepting applications for its Joseph J. Edlin Memorial Summer Journalism Internship. Mimi Edlin and her family established the scholarship to honor her late husband, Joseph J. Edlin. Joseph Edlin was a longtime Trustee and...
