I remember walking off the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World in Orlando and thinking to myself, "I could really go for a pastrami Reuben right about now" only to then realize there was no delicatessen at Disney World. But how times...

This story was originally published on June 19, 2017 It might be time to rethink everything you thought you knew about Jews and bacon. As you know, the laws of kashrut dictate that pigs are inherently unkosher: “And the swine, though he divide the...

The Hebrew word “kosher” means fit or proper as it relates to Jewish dietary law. Kosher foods are permitted to be eaten and can be used as ingredients in the production of additional food items. And when it comes to Kosher cooking, there is a...

If you’re stocking your bar for a festive Purim celebration, which begins the evening of  Feb. 25, here’s a tip: Get a bottle of Righteous Seven liqueur. The award-winning spirit is inspired by the Old Testament and manufactured right here in the...

Fifty years ago, when the Second Vatican Council issued the Nostra Aetate ( In Our Time ) document that condemned the Roman Catholic Church’s history of anti-Semitism and aimed to open up relations with Jews, church leaders probably weren’t thinking...

Last Sunday, the Roth family of Creve Coeur lost their home and all of their possessions in an early morning fire. Luckily, none of the family-parents Jane and Boaz and daughters Liat, 12; Sela, 8, and Orli, 1-were hurt in the three-alarm blaze that gutted...

From kosher food certification to separation of church and state to a ballot initiative on photo identification for voting, the local Jewish community looks forward to a diverse agenda as the Missouri General Assembly resumes work in Jefferson City this...

If Tevye of "Fiddler on the Roof" fame were a butcher instead of a milkman and Golda helped Teyve with his business instead of staying at home to raise five daughters, then Teyve and Golda might look a lot like Irving and Kay Diamant, longtime owners...