When gunman Robert Bowers fired on the Tree of Life congregation late last month, he shook the whole tree, from the roots in Pittsburgh to the branches of Jewish communities across the world. At Washington University, Bowers struck close to the root—several...

Word came from 600 miles away, but it could not have felt closer to home. The horrifying news arrived while many here were still in shul. It sounded surreal and yet all too familiar.A shooter had invaded a place of worship, on Shabbat, shouting, “All...

Nearly a century ago, on Sept. 1, 1923, a violent earthquake struck Japan, devastating Tokyo, Yokohama and the surrounding cities. One hundred thousand people lost their lives, and many had their lives turned upside down.The news reached as far as the...

A different take on vigil speakersI attended the vigil at the Jewish Community Center last Sunday (Oct. 28) and had a very different reaction than the opinion of Dr. Myron Jacobs (Letters to the Editor, Oct. 31 edition). To me, the program was uplifting...

When he reimposed sanctions on Iran, President Donald Trump called the move part of “a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda.” Let’s hope it works out that way.The president’s announcement...

“The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.”— William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”The events unfolding over the past few days have revealed a deadly poison at the...

The traumatic effects of hatred are all around us. Killings, bomb threats, acts of violence and hateful rhetoric motivated by the evils of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, anti-immigrant hatred, prejudice and every other form of hatred abound....

Eleven Jewish stars, with the names of the victims of the horrific mass shooting last Shabbat, stand on the lawn outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. In our tradition, the number 11 is said to represent the 11 stars in Joseph’s dream....

At Sunday’s community vigil to commemorate victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue murders, the most enthusiastic audience response came when the crowd was urged to exercise their power at the ballot box to put their priorities in place.At a time when events...

A synagogue under fire, the body count climbing. Several reactions rose within me simultaneously, the reactions shaped by the different lenses of my life. The first is the lens of Mother. The mother in me weeps, both for the dead and their families...

Condolences from NAACP  On behalf of the St. Louis NAACP I extend our heartfelt condolences to our families and friends within the Jewish community. But it cannot go unsaid that with the establishment of the Third Reich in 1933, German leaders proclaimed...

Just when we think that even Donald Trump has limits on how much he can disregard the truth comes the monumentally incompetent mishandling of the disappearance and apparent murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The president’s...