In 2017, St. Louis Fashion Fund (SLFF) was gifted with a generous donation of a mobile showcase on wheels — initially known as "Miki's Closet" — by Lori Sale and Fran Slutsky, who named the fashion truck in memory of their mother, Miki Zimring, a...
In 2015, Peter Gold, a medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans, was driving home when he saw a woman being dragged down the street by a hooded man. Gold stopped his car and saved the woman, taking a bullet to the abdomen and narrowly avoiding...
Joan Levinson’s current show at the Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s High Low Gallery in Grand Center, “Language Arts” is about the connection between literary and visual arts. Her works display certain words – “prologue,” “insistence” and...
How far are you willing to travel for a date with a nice Jewish (fill in the blank)? Now’s your chance to find out.
If you’re single, Jewish, in your late 20s, 30s, or 40s and living in the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin Michigan, Iowa, Indiana,...
Aish HaTorah and Congregation Shaare Emeth are co-sponsoring a blood drive on Sunday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in memory of Arianna Dougan. The blood drive will take place at Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road.
Eleven-year-old Arianna Dougan, better...
It’s been slightly more than a year since David Schenberg started making Schenny’s Not So Simple Syrup, the secret ingredient in his signature Old-Fashioned cocktails. Schenberg has given 100% of the proceeds to area food pantries and nonprofits...
When I started working in the St. Louis Jewish community more than a dozen years ago, one of the first people to call and welcome me was Marci Mayer Eisen, director of the Millstone Institute and staff person for JProStl, which supports professionals...
Hanging on the walls in my Jewish Light office, along with STL Shakespeare Festival posters; a framed letter from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; an autographed Weatherbird print; and a vintage photo of Elizabeth Taylor, is a colored pencil illustration...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published April 9, 2021
Maharat Rori Picker-Neiss, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, has been invited to speak on a panel at the virtual J Street National Conference April 18-19. The 2019 J Street Conference had over 4,000 attendees, including...
I’m guessing like me, you can’t wait until the return of in-person events in the STL Jewish community. Last week I got word that the 2021 Sababa Jewish Arts & Culture Festival is scheduled to take place outside on Oct. 10. Details of the location...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published March 24, 2021
It started where many of us have had our dreams of stardom realized: summer camp.Scott Bender, 34, recalls being tapped to audition at Camp North Star for Boys, a predominantly Jewish sleep-away summer camp in Hayward, Wisc., for the musical “Guys and...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is seeking entries for the 2021 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust.Entries must be submitted...
