As Passover approaches, and with all the safety restrictions being put in place to curtail the spread of COVID-19, many Jewish families throughout the St. Louis region may not be able to gather for a seder with family and friends as they have done in...
The Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis (JCRC) has hired Lauren Abraham as the new director of Student to Student effective July 1. The current director, Fawn Chapel, will be continuing to work with the JCRC as the National Coordinator of Student...
613 Catering, the Jewish Community Center-owned kosher catering business headed by Jon Rubin, has created a family-style meal service that includes Passover. For the foreseeable future, three times weekly – Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except during...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 20, 2020
The Jewish Community Center is hosting a couple of major events this year — so major, in fact, you might want to mark your calendars now.The first is a new, one-day conference on Sunday, May 17, designed to provide the St. Louis community with an in-depth,...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 20, 2020
Media wunderkind Gabe Fleisher, son of Central Reform Rabbi Randy Fleisher and teen host of “Wake Up to Politics” on St. Louis Public Radio, will lead a discussion with Chicago-based author and journalist Jeff Fleischer at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8 at...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 20, 2020
Every other year, the girls at Esther Miller Bais Yaakov (EMBY) work long and hard for five months on an original musical for female-only audience. This year’s 13th bi-annual production, “Double Take,” features students in grades 9 to 12 who all...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published February 13, 2020
The New Jewish Theatre received a record 21 nominations for the 2020 St. Louis Theatre Circle Awards for outstanding achievement in St. Louis Professional Theatre, the organization announced Feb. 7. Their previous high was 12 nominations for plays performed...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 6, 2020
Andrew Peterson cooks not only because he enjoys seeing others enjoy his food but also to honor his late mother, Arlene. She passed away when Peterson was in eighth grade in the Parkway School District.“Cooking was something that my mom found joy in,...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 6, 2020
Jewish Women International (JWI) has a line of feminist-leaning Valentine’s Day messages to celebrate love on Feb. 14. The organization suggests that instead of the usual, “I Love You” why not say “Consent: It Takes Two to Tango”? Why say “You’re...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 6, 2020
As she explains it, Leesa Neiner was looking for something meaningful that she and her daughter, Alyson, could get involved in. “When my daughter was about 8 or 9 years old, we tried sports, we tried music, we tried everything and found we had talent...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 30, 2020
As a way of getting more folks from the St. Louis Jewish community involved in immigration reform, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) is joining forces with Welcome Neighbor STL and sponsoring a “Welcome Neighbor Dinner” from 6 to 8 p.m....
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 30, 2020
We are thrilled to welcome Amy Fenster Brown to the Jewish Light as a regular monthly columnist. Anyone familiar with Amy knows how funny and self-effacing she can be, and our guess is she soon will become a reader favorite.A 2015 Light Unsung Hero, Amy’s...
