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St. Louis Jewish Light

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

End of an era? Kohn's Kosher Meat and Deli for sale

End of an era? Kohn’s Kosher Meat and Deli for sale

Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-ChiefPublished March 30, 2022

What, no more killer pastrami sandwiches? That may come to pass as the only freestanding full-service kosher grocery left in St. Louis, Kohn’s Kosher Meat and Deli, is for sale. Listed by Lawyers Realty Co. LLC, the 59-year-old business is listed...

Lenny Kohn

Nosh on ballpark food – without the ballpark

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITORPublished September 4, 2020

In a typical year, many of us would head downtown to Busch Stadium for a Cardinals game. But that’s not going to happen in 2020. No crack of the bat, no roar of the crowd, no aroma of hot dogs and popcorn. Still, you can get one ballpark experience...

Akram Ali Hassan was a chef at Kohn’s Kosher Deli.  

Kohn’s chef, a Palestinian Muslim, cooked with head and heart

By Eric Berger, Associate EditorPublished October 24, 2019

When a Jewish Light food writer was looking for tips on matzah ball soup before Passover in 2008, she turned to someone who, to the unfamiliar, might have seemed an unlikely source: a Palestinian Muslim man.But Akram Ali-Hassan had been a chef at Kohn’s...

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