Toke on this Admittedly, I’m not a big ABC Family channel watcher, but I turned the corner recently when I found out about David Kram and “Startup U.”Kram, who is 27 years old and grew up in St. Louis, is one of 10 young techies competing in a...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 19, 2015
In September, Ohr Chadash, the monthly section in the Jewish Light written by St. Louis-area Jewish high school students, will start back up for another school year. While similar sections in newspapers across the country have come and gone, Ohr Chadash,...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 12, 2015
It was an offer he couldn’t refuse.That’s how Benjamin Hochman describes his decision to leave a sports columnist position at the Denver Post to assume a similar one at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He will replace Bernie Miklasz, whose last column...
By Rebecca Ferman, Jewish Light Staff
• Published July 22, 2015
In November of 2012, Dick Horowitz chose to spend his 67th birthday a little differently than most people would: flying a plane from Ohio to Kansas to reunite an ill passenger with her family. When they arrived at their destination, a cheering crowd was...
By Rebecca Ferman, Jewish Light Staff
• Published July 15, 2015
In the past, he’s modeled with Madonna for Dolce and Gabbana, and starred alongside Keke Palmer in the Nickelodeon film “Rags.” But 2015 is shaping up to be Max Schneider’s biggest year yet. Schneider, known in the music world as “MAX,”...
By Susan Fadem, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 7, 2015
In a University City neighborhood of small brick houses, the one shared by St. Louis’ first poet laureate, Michael Castro, and his wife, photographer and multimedia artist Adelia Parker-Castro, is the only one with a purple foundation.Somehow irresistibly...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 16, 2014
On a recent Shabbat morning, the sanctuary at Central Reform Congregation is bathed in sunlight and alive with music and dance. Independence Day was the day before, but the festivities aren’t in honor of the July Fourth weekend. Instead, as the ruckus...
By Barry Gilbert, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 1, 2014
Dave Simon strikes a chord at Orthodox day schoolsRoom 216 at Epstein Hebrew Academy (EHA) in St. Louis is filled with bookcases holding impressive sets of serious-looking bound volumes written in Hebrew, as well as paint and beads and other craft supplies,...
Benjamin Collinger, Junior, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published February 14, 2014
Kellin Quinn Hentoff-Killian, 17, has grown up around the circus. Performing is second nature, practice is a priority and creativity is paramount. Kellin is one of the premier jugglers in the world, and his passion for his craft has been parlayed into...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 15, 2014
If Marcia Evers Levy were to write a memoir based on her tenure as director of the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, her reminiscences would be just as remarkable as those of the many authors she brought to town over the past 15 years. Evers Levy resigned...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR
• Published December 11, 2013
As holidays go, it wasn’t well celebrated. In fact, few people knew about it at all. Nevertheless, National Technological Innovation Day is a real national holiday designated as such for the first time on Oct. 29 of this year. And the brainchild behind...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published November 27, 2013
Every so often I try to channel my friend and colleague Lois Caplan, who currently is busy traveling for the holidays and taking a short hiatus from her bi-monthly column. Lois, as most of you know, does a terrific job highlighting all sorts of worthwhile...
