Gateway Transportation Center and the National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis (NCJWSTL) have partnered to install human trafficking posters in an effort to create awareness and stop human trafficking. Located in downtown St. Louis, the Gateway Transportation...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published November 14, 2019
The U.S. Army was monitoring a largely Jewish group of protesters who traveled in August from St. Louis to Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla., to protest the planned detention of migrant children at the facility, according to a report in The Intercept.The digital...
By Kayla Steinberg, Staff Writer
• Published August 8, 2019
“My name is Jaakelin Caal Maquin. At the age of 7, I died on Dec. 8, 2018, after being detained by the El Paso border patrol.”LAWTON, Okla. — The 100-degree southwestern Oklahoma heat beat down on Heartland for Human Justice trip participants as,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published July 11, 2019
Cool memories of summerAs a little girl in the late 1960s, no time of year was better than summer. It wasn’t just being out of school and going to sleep away camp, both of which I adored, but also the Good Humor truck circling our neighborhood with...
The National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis section hosted its annual Back to School! Store Sunday at Central Reform Congregation. For the past 15 years, volunteers have helped to outfit more than 100,000 children as they prepare to go back to school....
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 12, 2014
The National Council of Jewish Women put the spotlight on St. Louis this past weekend by holding its triennial conference here for the first time in more than two decades.“It was an opportunity to showcase a lot of local experts who are coming in to...
SINCE 1945 WHEN I WAS INVITED to serve on the Board of the National Council of Jewish Women, St. Louis Section, I have watched the progress and activities of the organization. Now, almost 70 years later, NCJW has developed a great program especially...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published March 28, 2012
The Healing Hearts Bank is small, open to only a few select customers, but the bank’s mission is far-reaching. The micro-lending program, initiated by the St. Louis Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, aims to help end domestic violence...
