By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 23, 2011
Avraham Lapine hails from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. but the 25-year-old Lubavitcher rabbi says he has felt no culture shock since opening the new Chabad Jewish Student Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia two weeks ago. "My...
by Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 9, 2011
"David," a film about friendship and tolerance, will be featured in the St. Louis International Film Festival as part of its Jewish Sidebar. Although the film's director, Joel Fendelman, is based in New York, he has family roots in St. Louis. "David"...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 9, 2011
It was the kind of event that friends and admirers of the late Rabbi Sholom Rivkin say he would have loved: hundreds of students, rabbis and teachers from four Orthodox day schools filling the gymnasium at the H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy for a siyum-a...
Fall arts guide cover With Carlos Santana, under pro-Palestinian pressure, cancelling his performance in Israel, why are you promoting his appearance in St. Louis on the front cover of the Fall Arts Guide (Aug. 31)? Sandy Salz Overland Park, Kan. Praise...
By Victoria Siegel, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 18, 2011
Orthodox feminism. To some, the phrase might sound like an oxymoron, but to a vocal contingent within the Jewish Orthodox community, a feminist movement is indeed alive and growing, In fact, since 1997, the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) has...
By Gail Appleson, Special to the Light
• Published April 13, 2011
Can you remember exactly when you graduated from grape juice to super sweet Manischewitz or Mogen David Concord wine? I have to admit that I don't recall the precise holiday or Shabbat, but I do certainly remember a childhood Passover when my older brother...
