By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 14, 2012
The Cedars at the JCA appears to be getting both a new owner and a new name. The senior care facility is being acquired by Mark Suissa, who operates six skilled nursing facilities, including three in the St. Louis area. Ownership is set to transfer on...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 14, 2012
Bigger. Better. Bolder. That’s the concept behind the second annual Festival of Jewish Life, set for March 18-25. The eight-day event will celebrate numerous aspects of Jewish life, among them music, movies, the arts and spirituality. The festival opens...
Residents of a small New Hampshire town voted to rename a recreational water hole called Jew Pond. The 104-33 vote Tuesday night by residents of Mont Vernon, N.H. came after a charged debate among residents, interrupted for a half hour due to a false...
TORONTO -- Canada's Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is forming a volunteer network to provide security at Canadian synagogues and Jewish community facilities. The Community Security Network will be similar to neighborhood watch programs, only on...
FORT WORTH, Texas—In Texas, they say, high school athletics are a religion. But last weekend the saying took on a new meaning. The Robert M. Beren Academy, a small Modern Orthodox school in Houston, had captured national headlines during the week. Its...
By Patricia Corrigan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 7, 2012
Maybe you saw them on CNN or on “The Today Show.” Maybe you read about them in the New York Times or the Jerusalem Post. Maybe you watched their videos on You Tube—the first one posted got two million hits in 10 days. Or maybe you caught their concerts...
How time truly does fly when you are having fun! It is really hard to believe but March 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE), which started off with a modest set of goals but emerged into a...
Letter provokes responses Norman Pressman raises an interesting point in his objection to the all-girls musical productions of Block Yeshiva and Bais Yaakov (Letter to the editor, Feb. 29). He is correct that I will not be able to attend my own daughter’s...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 7, 2012
More than a year after stalling with no apparent resolution, merger talks between Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel and Shaare Zedek Synagogue appear to have reignited last week. “I don’t have a crystal ball and can’t predict anything,” said Susan Cort,...
TOKYO—Sitting in Tokyo shortly before the first anniversary of the tsunami, I recalled my surprise the first time a Japanese person thanked me, as a Jew, for Israel’s immediate response to the disaster. It was certainly not the time to instruct that...
Jewish gravestones were vandalized at a veteran's cemetery in Florida. At least 13 tombstones decorated with a Star of David, gravesites of Jewish veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, were toppled or dug out of the ground over the weekend at the...
NEW YORK -- Leading Jewish organizations came together to discuss the future of Israel education for North American pre-college students. Some 80 groups gathered last week in New York for a meeting called iThink convened by the iCenter, a Chicago-based...
