Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 3, 2020
This feature is dedicated to the memory of Melvin L. Newmark, St. Louis attorney and Jewish community leader, who served as president of the Jewish Light Board of Trustees from l969-l972. In his memory, Mr. Newmark’s family and friends established...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 2, 2019
June 6, 2023, will mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion that dealt a fatal blow to the evil, genocidal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, saved Western civilization and arguably the Jews of the entire world.
On June 5, 1944, after...
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...
Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 7, 2017
In today’s bitterly divisive political climate, alliances that were once enduring appear to have grown increasingly estranged from one another. A couple of recent events occurring within weeks of each other are reminders of the once solid relationship...
BY ROBERT A. COHN | Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 28, 2016
“Show me the fiercest general and he will tremble before a skirt.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Jewish-born actress and femme fatale who died Dec. 18 at the age of 99, collected nine husbands and countless lovers during her long...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 18, 2015
October marked the 50th anniversary of the approval of the historic, 6,000-word Nostra Aetate (“In Our Time”), through which the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church preached tolerance of non-Christian religions.
Six hundred words...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published December 17, 2014
No one can deny the enormous, multi-decade contributions that Jews have made to American musical theater and the classic American songbook.
On the topic of Jews in Music, Darryl Lyman’s book “Great Jews in Music” (Jonathan David Publishers,...
Judith Newmark, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 26, 2013
Editor’s Note: St. Louis Post-Dispatch theater critic Judith Newmark recently delivered this talk on Jewish-American theater at the Brodsky Library.
When my daughter Jordan was a sixth-grader at Solomon Schechter Day School, Rabbi Mordecai Miller...
