At 2 p.m. on April 26, Arts & Faith St. Louis and the St. Louis Storytelling Festival will co-host a virtual free storytelling event on the theme “Stories of Compassion.” The event will be available only on Zoom: https://muextension.zoom.us/j/519027333.Four...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published April 23, 2020
In mid-March, as restaurants and bars were closing or limiting service, Roo Yawitz recognized independent business owners and employees would need some relief.Yawitz, the owner of The Gramophone, a sandwich pub in the Grove neighborhood and a partner...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 23, 2020
Like many of us, David and Randi Schenberg have been ordering groceries online. Recently, when David Schenberg went to pick up the family’s order from Sam’s Club, he noticed a bag in his cart that he didn’t recognize. Turns out it was a 25-pound...
By Carolyn Conte, Baltimore Jewish Times
• Published April 23, 2020
Andrew Rehfeld is marking his first year as the 10th president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.A Baltimore native, Rehfeld was born at Sinai Hospital, then moved away to Atlantic City and Philadelphia. As a teenager, he returned to...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR
• Published April 23, 2020
These days, Rabbi James Stone Goodman spends a whole lot of time checking in with folks. “I make myself carry my 50-pound phone around and I call more people every day to see how they are doing,” said Goodman, who is affiliated with Central Reform...
The first round of assistance from the Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Community Response Fund has already gone to local agencies on the front lines of providing assistance to the most vulnerable people in the Jewish community.More than 360 donors have...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published April 23, 2020
It started with towels.“We had really old towels, and we wanted to replace them with new ones. We weren’t asking for a renovation,” explained Sarah Glickfield, president of the board of Taharath Israel of St. Louis, which oversees the Sylvia Green...
Bill Motchan, St. Louis Jewish Light
• Published April 14, 2020
In our strange new reality, working at home has become not just an option but a mandate for many. That is particularly challenging in some professions. Consider the plight of professional musicians. Their bread and butter is performing before a live...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 2, 2020
Becca Near said her grandmother, Gail Hawkins, wanted a party rather than a funeral when she died.And she wanted her ashes scattered into the ocean from a cruise ship. Both requests will have to wait because of restrictions on social life and travel...
By Ellie S. Grossman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 2, 2020
Passover is a cherished Jewish holiday that celebrates our journey from the bitterness of slavery to the sweetness of freedom, a paradoxical theme amidst the plague of COVID-19. During this global pandemic, we are socially distant and socially isolated,...
Good news to report from the Weinhaus family, which has five members battling the coronavirus. Michael Weinhaus, 63, was released from Missouri Baptist Hospital on Monday, and his wife, Jane, 63, who has been at Mo Bap for more than two weeks, is off...
At our slab ranch in Olivette, it’s just my husband and me right now. We’re empty nesters and have gotten used to the perks it affords, namely a relatively clean house and the knowledge that all lids to plastic containers in our refrigerator are screwed...
