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

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Rabbi Hershey Novack

What’s hot to read this summer

By Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished August 2, 2012

So what are you reading this summer?When we posed that question to a number of St. Louis area rabbis and Jewish professionals, we received a wide variety of enthusiastic responses. In some cases, the books choices were light and breezy — kind of how...

Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Cohnipedia: Justice Brandeis and St. Louis — a short history

BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished July 27, 2011

Most American Jews are familiar with the life and career of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the Kentucky-born legal scholar who excelled at Harvard Law School when few Jews were admitted to that university, and who was later nominated by President Woodrow Wilson...

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