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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

Rabbi James Bennett is one of the hosts of Torah Tuesday, a series of Torah teachings that will be available on Congregation Shaare Emeth’s Facebook page and in its e-newsletter. FACEBOOK VIDEO SCREENSHOT

Shaare Emeth starts video parsha in Torah Tuesday series

By Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished November 1, 2019

Congregation Shaare Emeth has begun Torah Tuesday, in which members of its clergy produce 2 to 3 minutes of Torah teaching based on the week’s parsha.“We wanted to do something on a regular basis that wasn’t promoting events or fundraising,” explained...

Benjamin Chaidell is the Rabbi Bernard Lipnick Rabbinic Intern at Congregation B’nai Amoona and is a member of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association.

Becoming ‘woke’ to oppression, then and now

BY BENJAMIN CHAIDELLPublished January 10, 2018

“Stay woke!” The word “woke” has increasingly come to mean not only the past tense of “awake” but also to be socially aware, especially as related to issues of racial and social justice, according to Merriam-Webster. The term originated...

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