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 nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Pinchas Goldschmidt has been the chief rabbi of Moscow since 1993, serving at the Moscow Choral Synagogue and since 2011 as president of the Conference of European Rabbis. 

Jewish education a key part of bridging the Israel-Diaspora divide

By Pinchas GoldschmidtPublished August 23, 2018

Israel’s passage of the nation-state law brought another round of barrages across the Atlantic underlining the growing alienation of the world’s two largest Jewish communities. The issues are increasingly familiar: American pluralism versus Jewish...

Don’t Unfriend  the Druze

Don’t Unfriend the Druze

JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALPublished August 9, 2018

We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...

Amos Yadlin, third from left, sits with leaders of Israel’s Druze community at a Tel Aviv rally against the controversial nation-state law, Aug. 5, 2018. (Courtesy of Yadlin)

Why a former Israeli military intelligence chief stands with the Druze

Amos YadlinPublished August 6, 2018

TEL AVIV — Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I was proud to join tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday night in a peaceful, unifying protest led by...

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