The St. Louis Jewish Light has announced a new multi-faceted event targeted to women business professionals, working women and entrepreneurs.The Jewish Light’s inaugural Women’s Networking Forum, sponsored by Midwest Vein Center, will be held from...
NEW YORK -- State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement with a company accused of discriminating against a Shabbat-observant employee. According to a press release put out by the attorney general, a new hire at Milrose Consultants,...
The mere mention of Shavuot sends images of cheesecakes before my eyes and calling my name. I love cheesecakes and they love me — so much they plant themselves on my hips forever.On the two-day festival, which this year begins on the evening of May...
NEW YORK – Supporters say he’s an innocent man caught up in the tentacles of a corrupt Latin American regime. Authorities in Bolivia, however, allege that he’s a shady businessman with ties to drug dealers and money launderers. What's certain is...
NEW YORK (6NoBacon) -- Mila Kunis played the hero for real in a scene Monday at her Los Angeles home, saving the life of a choking workman. The 50-year-old man had swallowed his tongue and started choking. Kunis quickly rushed to the scene, urging a...
NEW YORK -- The works of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israel’s only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, are on the shelves of nearly every Israeli bookstore. Readers seeking S.Y. Agnon's writing can access several editions of his novels, novellas and short...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 25, 2012
Framed by a bright blue sky and with the shimmering ripples of Creve Coeur Lake reflecting in her mirrored sunglasses as she unshoulders a guitar case, Jamie Korngold doesn’t really cut the figure of a traditional rabbi. But that’s OK since some of...
NEW YORK—Regina Spektor has a cold—or as she calls it, “a nondescript New York disease.” The singer is onstage at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York headlining a benefit concert for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, or HIAS, which helped resettle...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 18, 2012
Just months after its creation, the new Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School finds itself celebrating both promising fundraising figures and a healthy enrollment total. “We hope to achieve our goal by the summer,” said head of school Cheryl Maayan....
NEW YORK -- The outcome of a bitterly fought special election between two Jewish candidates in a southern Brooklyn state Senate district remains uncertain the day after the vote. Democrat Lewis Fidler and Republican David Storobin both claimed victory...
WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Gary Ackerman decided to retire, he did it in the same manner that he served in Congress for the past three decades: on his own terms. The veteran New York Democrat had insisted for weeks that he would run again, so the announcement...
By Haley Abramson, John Burroughs High School
• Published March 19, 2012
While many youngsters attend Sunday school and religious classes each week, often their knowledge about religions other than their own is lacking. Even teens with a good understanding of their religion don’t always know exactly what they are worshipping...
