By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 16, 2020
Serial entrepreneur Lynn Hamilton has gone into the T-shirt business, with a mash-up brand of her own Olympic making.“These are niche T-shirts that focus on things that are not Olympic sports but that people take as seriously, such as shopping, chocolate...
The Jewish Community Center is seeking donated books in advance of its Winter Used Book Sale in January. Donations of books are still being accepted through Jan. 10 at the J’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. The Winter Used...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in Chief Emeritus
• Published October 31, 2019
It is hard to get your arms around the fact that it has been a half-century since the 1969 New York Mets evolved from the “Lovable Losers” of Major League Baseball to the “Miracle Mets” who defied all odds to win the World Series of that year....
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2019
Readers eagerly wait for it all year. The 41st annual St. Louis Book Festival takes place Nov. 3-17 at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex. The festival is one of the nation’s largest, with 25 events in 12 days.This year the opening...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 24, 2019
Sophomore Jonathan Mack is perhaps among only a handful of undergraduates at Washington University who brought a full set of power tools to college — reciprocating saw and all.So it made perfect sense, at least to Chabad on Campus Rabbi Hershey Novack,...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published October 24, 2019
In August, Jewish Federation of St. Louis held a relaunch event for its Young Professionals Division (YPD). Evan Glantz served as co-chair of this event, which was held at the .ZACK event space in Midtown. The organization told invitees that it had spent...
The new HJ’s Café, located adjacent to the Mirowitz Center in the new Covenant Place II Cahn Family Building, has opened and is currently serving breakfast and lunch on Mondays through Fridays in October. Starting in November, HJ’s Café will be...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 10, 2019
Everything’s gonna be alright If pictures were used to explain the meaning of certain words, no doubt Randy Fleisher’s headshot would be found alongside “mensch.” The Central Reform Congregation rabbi personifies the definition of all-around...
By Ellie Grossman-Cohen, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 10, 2019
With warm brown eyes and a playful sense of humor, Kevin Dietl was a caring and compassionate person who preferred to greet people with a bear hug over a handshake. As a promising medical student at A.T. Still University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 3, 2019
Stamp collector Alex Haimann has traveled the world extensively in pursuit of a hobby that first grabbed him in childhood. In August, he gave billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett an impromptu tour of the nation’s largest annual stamp show, which...
The Jewish Community Center is seeking volunteers to help sort donated books and ready them for sale in advance of the Winter Used Book Sale in January. Volunteers are needed on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the new marking location,...
The Kranzberg Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, is accepting applications for its 2020 funding cycle from St. Louis area 501(c)(3) organizations and congregations. This year celebrates the 12th funding cycle...
