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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

A man dressed as Elmo from Sesame Street is shown yelling anti-Semitic slurs in New Yorks Times Square, June 2012.

Anti-Semitic adventures for ‘Elmo,’ U.S. embassies’ thoughtless tweets, Michael Jackson’s Jews

By Uri Fintzy, JTAPublished June 26, 2012

SIX DEGREES (NO BACON)/JEWISH CELEBRITY ROUNDUP NEW YORK (6NoBacon) -- Fans of Elmo no doubt were taken aback when a man wearing a costume of the beloved "Sesame Street" character replaced his cute and loving words with anti-Semitic slurs in some of New...

Actress Elizabeth Taylor dies

JTA REPORTPublished March 23, 2011

Academy Award-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who maintained a support for Israel after converting to Judaism in the late 1950s, has died. Taylor, known for her violet eyes and her plethora of husbands, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at...

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