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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

Rooney Mara, left, as Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker,
with Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in David Finchers
remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

Stieg Larsson’s other calling: Battling neo-Nazis

By Naomi Pfefferman, Arts & Entertainment Editor, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles Published January 4, 2012

Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author of the international best-selling "Millennium" series, including "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," died in 2004 at age 50 of a heart attack, before the publication of his crime thrillers made him one of the most famous...

Academy Award winner Helen Mirren stars as retired secret agent
Rachel Singer in John Maddens espionage thriller ‘The Debt.

‘The Debt’ remakes Israeli spy thriller

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished August 31, 2011

Three young Mossad agents return to a heroes' welcome in 1965 Israel from their mission to capture a Nazi war criminal, the notorious "Surgeon of Birkenau." But on that long ago mission they made a pact and, now middle-aged, Rachel Singer (Helen Mirrren)...

Karel Roden (left) is among the actors who bring nuanced performances to ‘Habermann,’ which tells the fact-based story of the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II.

Fact-based ‘Habermann’ is complex tale of ethnic hatred

By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished June 8, 2011

"Habermann" is a thought-provoking movie about the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia after the end of World War II in 1945. This complex film is a disturbing drama focused on the toxic nature of ethnic hatred.  Czech director Juraj Herz...

Sara J. Bloomfield is the director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

From the Nuremberg trials, a challenge for today

By Sara J. BloomfieldPublished May 4, 2011

WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years ago at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, 22 defendants stood in the dock. They represented a cross-section of Nazi diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership, and became the first people...

Martijn Lakemeier as Michiel and Raymond Thiry star in ‘Winter in Wartime.’

Compelling coming-of-age film set in Nazi-occupied Holland

By Cate Marquis, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished April 27, 2011

"Winter in Wartime" is a moving, suspenseful and well-crafted coming-of-age drama set in a snowy 1945 Nazi-occupied Holland. Beautifully photographed and based on Dutch author Jan Terlouw's "award-winning" semi-autobiographical novel "Oorlogswinter,"...

Survivor Sarah Klein (right) lights a candle with her granddaughter, Hannah Klein, during the 2010 Yom HaShoah community commemoration at Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel.  This year’s Yom HaShoah takes place Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth. File photo: Lisa Mandel

Yom HaShoah event marks 70 years since Nazi forces invaded Former Soviet Union

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 27, 2011

In the predawn hours of Sunday, June 22, 1941 millions of German troops accompanied by thousands of tanks and armored vehicles swarmed over the Soviet frontier and in doing so launched one of the largest invasions in the history of combat. Codenamed Operation...

A visitor at last year’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemoration reads about “patriots” of the Holocaust, people who risked their lives to save others. This year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration takes place Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth. File photo: Lisa Mandel

Holocaust Remembrance Day event will commemorate 70th anniversary of Nazi invasion of Former Soviet Union

Published April 21, 2011

Hundreds of St. Louisans will mark the largest annual community-wide Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 1 at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road, in Creve Coeur. The program, supported by Leo and Sara Wolf through the...

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