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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

After death, holiness? Responding to the scourge of gun violence

After death, holiness? Responding to the scourge of gun violence

RABBI JAMES BENNETTPublished April 26, 2023

We must have become numb to gun violence. Hardly a day goes by without another mass shooting in a school, shopping center, place of worship or public square. We don’t even know what qualifies as a mass shooting these days. Deaths attributable...

Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh

D’var Torah: Holiness toward others fans spark of the Divine

RABBI ELIZABETH HERSHPublished May 5, 2022

God spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them: You shall be holy, for I the Eternal your God, am holy.” This, to me, is the essence of our heritage. The simple beauty of these two verses declare that...

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