By David Baugher , Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 30, 2011
As Barry Rosenberg nurses a cup of coffee at a local café, the President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis paints a picture of what many once thought was a typical Jewish home. "Most of our institutions were designed to serve what...
The news is gloomy these days, for sure, which makes it even harder to look for those morsels that ought comprise our Thanksgiving-season gratitude.Domestically, political types seem more desirous of destroying their opponents than creating governing...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published November 23, 2011
A suburban Chicago congressional primary featuring two Jewish candidates is being cast by political observers as a test of the Democratic Party's direction. The race's two highest profile candidates are Brad Schneider, who enjoys establishment support...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published November 16, 2011
Dennis Ross got back in the driver's seat, yet three years later the peace is still missing. Ross, a veteran of four failed presidential pushes for Middle East peace, announced Nov. 10 that he would be leaving his post as President BarackObama's top Middle...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 16, 2011
After joining the Israeli military, Stan Hoffman understood that he had volunteered to serve the Jewish homeland-yet the 19-year-old native St. Louisan had never felt farther from home. "The families would come and visit their kids," recalled the Ladue...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 2, 2011
According to Jonathan Adelman, professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, it is "hard to say" right now if the Arab Spring sweeping the Middle East and North Africa is positive or negative for the security interests...
Certainly everyone sees the hate ablaze in the words of Islamist leaders when they refer to Israel as a "cancerous tumor," as Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did once again last weekend. As the radical cleric reiterated his support for Hamas and other violent...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 28, 2011
In a sense, Hannah Rosenthal is guaranteed job security as long as she stays at her post in the U.S. State Department.Rosenthal, 60, is U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a position she's held since 2010. And, as history has shown,...
Israel's complexity, and the nature of the world's response to it, is in danger of defeating us as a community.How can we say when a fiery piece of theater is "anti-Semitic," and when it is simply "courageous and challenging"? How do we know when a documentary...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 21, 2011
Anna Krayterman recalls well having a meeting with students, administrators and board members at St. Louis University about ways to create better conversations on campus."It was a nice dialogue and it was a great start to talking about issues like Israel,"...
To paraphrase a lyric of a pop song of a few years back, we "sure could use some good news" to balance so much bad and even terrible news coming out of the Middle East in recent days. The "Arab Spring" seems to be morphing into an "Israeli Winter" with...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 7, 2011
Rabbi James Bennett of Congregation Shaare Emeth can't help but chuckle a bit when asked if debate over Mideast policy is different inside the Jewish State than it is within the largest Jewish community in the world, the United States. "It's one of the...
