On Tuesday, St. Louis Jewish Light Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Bob Cohn was a guest on The Charlie Brennan Show with Amy Marxkors to discuss his article (read below) on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's visit to St. Louis in 1960.
Cohn discussed King's...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 31, 2018
“Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin? He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good die young. But I just look around and he’s gone.” — Lyric from “Abraham, Martin and John,” by Dion DiMucci
It is hard to believe that...
By Rabbi Tracy Nathan
• Published January 25, 2017
In 1853, Theodore Parker, an abolitionist and advocate for women’s suffrage and a Unitarian minister, preached these words: “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate...
By Rabbi Marc Schneier
• Published January 11, 2017
As we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., American Jews should reflect anew upon the epic struggle he led to free African-Americans from the shackles of bigotry and take pride in the singular role played by the Jewish community in support...
In this week's Torah portion, Behar, God instructs the Israelites, via Moses, that every 50 years they are to observe a jubilee (yovel) year in which they shall "proclaim liberty (dror) throughout the land." This phrase should "ring a bell," since it...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published April 13, 2011
Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon, general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and Rabbi Steve Gutow, president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, became close friends when each worked in St. Louis before assuming...
