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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

Jimmy Koppel

Upcoming college graduate’s entrepreneurial goals boosted by $100k grant

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 2, 2012

When he was 10 years old, Jimmy Koppel decided he wanted to create video games when he grew up. Just a decade later, Koppel has been there and done that – and now he has been named one of 20 young entrepreneurs to receive $100,000 to work on his new...

Put Russian-speaking Jews on the community’s radar

By Misha Galperin, JTAPublished April 30, 2012

NEW YORK -- With the contemporary music world buzzing about Regina Spektor’s upcoming album more than a month before its release, I cannot help but think about the young musician’s rise in the context of Russian-speaking Jewry. Spektor, who...

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