WASHINGTON—Thanks to hip-hop superstar Drake’s latest music video, there are now far more eyes focusing on Temple Israel’s bimah than there are even during the High Holidays. And even though the song’s lyrics are decidedly more profane than sacred,...
By Jon Rosenberg and Lee Sherman
• Published April 5, 2012
Nonprofits in the United States don’t just benefit from government contracts and charitable donations. Some 62.8 million volunteers in the United States provided more than 8 billion hours of their time to nonprofits in 2010 at an estimated value of...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 4, 2012
Dorothy Solomon, for many years an admired “super-saleswoman” of the St. Louis Jewish Light, died “peacefully,” according to family members, on Friday, March 30, at Menorah Medical Center in Kansas City. She was 90 and had lived in Kansas City,...
By design, the Passover seder is perhaps the paradigmatic family holiday. Relatives, distant and close, friends, even strangers crowd around the dinner table to laugh, eat and of course to read the Haggadah, telling the story of the Israelites Exodus...
Congregation Shaare Emeth will present “God, Wilderness, Doubt and Faith: A Weekend with Rabbi Jamie Korngold,” April 20-22. Known as the “Adventure Rabbi,” Korngold is a Reform rabbi who is nationally recognized for her pioneering work combining...
Congregation Shaare Emeth is holding its 14th annual Mitzvah Day on Sunday, May 6. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. followed by Mitzvah Day Kick off Ceremony at 9:15 a.m. Under a theme of “One Mitzvah Leads to Another,” participants will have the...
The community is invited to join Congregation Temple Israel in commemorating its 125th anniversary at an “Honoring Our Past Shabbat” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20 in the Gall Family Sanctuary. A festive oneg will follow the service. Anyone with...
The H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy will honor Dr. George and Darla Grossberg at its 69th annual gala on April 29. The honorary chair for the event is Gabe Grossberg. Dr. Grossberg is the Samuel W. Fordyce Professor and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry...
Jewish Federation’s 2012 Community Campaign officially launches this month with the theme, “A Community Thriving. Together.” The annual campaign is the St. Louis Jewish community’s largest ongoing fundraising effort. Funds raised support 60...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 4, 2012
For those exploring seder options this Passover, St. Louis presents no shortage of opportunities to mark the holiday with a variety of specially themed gatherings to suit any taste. St. Louis University and the Jewish Community Relations Council held...
TUNIS -- Tucked on a quiet side street blocks from the Mediterranean Sea, the last kosher restaurant in the Tunisian capital is a thriving center of Jewish tradition in a country of 10 million with nearly an entire Arab and Muslim population. Yet Jacob...
By the Jewish Light Staff
• Published March 28, 2012
Too often a good idea leads to less desirable—though unintended—consequences. So it was with the Jewish Light’s Matzah Taste Test. Wouldn’t it be helpful to buy a bunch of different brands of matzah and recruit staff members to judge the brands...
