AMY HAMMERMAN and HILLARY HINZ
• Published February 18, 2022
The 2022 Missouri Legislative session kicked off Jan. 5th and the National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis has already been a consistent presence in the capitol advocating on behalf of our priority issues. Although we anticipate several difficult fights...
The Eleven.
That’s the shorthand name I’ve given to the bipartisan group of women who currently serve in Missouri’s senate. Eleven is an historic number.
It is more women serving together in the upper chamber than ever before in Missouri’s...
Last summer and fall, as the general election approached, citizens across the country voiced concern about the prospect of voting in person. With COVID -19 spreading, many jurisdictions saw a need, even if only temporarily, to expand absentee and mail-in...
BY ERIC BERGER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
• Published December 31, 2020
Roughly two-thirds of American Jews identify with the Democratic Party, according to Gallup polling. And 80% of Reform rabbis affiliate with the Democrats, according to a Yale University study.But contrary to what you might expect, two first-term legislators ...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published May 23, 2019
When Dr. David Eisenberg was in high school, his mother told him her story of the pregnancy she had in 1971 in northeast Philadelphia. She and Eisenberg’s father already had two children and she became pregnant despite the fact that she had an intrauterine...
By Nancy Litz and Glenn Northern
• Published May 16, 2019
In the emotionally charged discussions around reproductive freedom, it can seem that people of faith universally support extreme, restrictive proposals like those currently before the Missouri Legislature. As people deeply committed to our respective...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published May 9, 2018
The Democratic state senator who sponsored a bill that seeks to combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel said last week that it does not look as though the measure is “moving forward.”According to the sponsor, that’s...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published March 7, 2018
Committees in the Missouri House and Senate have voted to move forward with legislation that would require companies that receive state contracts to certify that they will not engage in a boycott of Israel. Gov. Eric Greitens has also said he would approve...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published December 14, 2016
You either think the rough justice of the Wild West works or you don’t. We don’t. And most law enforcement officials don’t either.Yet Missouri continues to move further down the line toward frontier law. Last year, over gubernatorial veto, the General...
By Margaret Gillerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 24, 2016
Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman of Richmond Heights has some “most favorite lobbyists” and she’s not afraid to name them.They’re “the fourth graders from Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School,” Newman wrote on Facebook. She also displayed...
