An army marches on its stomach. So, too, does a major league baseball team, and for much of the past decade the St. Louis Cardinals players have been well fed by Simon Lusky, the Jewish team chef. This year, Lusky made a big transition from feeding ballplayers...

The Gesher Music Festival will return Aug. 10-19 for its eighth season of bringing professional musicians to St. Louis to perform chamber music with a “Jewish twist” or inflection.In addition to a free family concert at the Ferguson Library at 2...

Noga Sachs stands before a group of Republicans in a private room at a Golden Corral buffet restaurant in St. Charles and keeps repeating different versions of the same two words: select and elect. “Right now, the Missouri GOP is selecting the candidate...

News stories about Israel often involve conflict—missile attacks, tension between secular and religious Jews—or tech startups and innovation incubators. While there is a definite thirst for information about Israel among U.S. Jews, there is only so...

Talia Wolkowitz is a native St. Louisan who served in the Israel Defense Forces for two years. After joining in December 2015, she rose to the rank of sergeant, working as an operational track and attack canine handler. In this position, she was paired...

Identical twins and local entrepreneurs Jeff and Randy Vines operate a fun, quirky T-shirt and apparel shop at the corner of Cherokee Street and Compton Avenue called STL-Style. Walk in, and the first thing you notice are shirts hanging on a wall with...

Ed Farber, a local artist and writer, became involved with Creve Coeur Days 46 years ago, mainly because of his wife. She was a member of B’nai Brith Women, a community and philanthropic nonprofit that raised money for the organization through a carnival...

Edo Rosenblith grew up seeing his dad paint. It made art accessible and understandable to him, and this exposure made him want to be an artist himself.“His paintings were all over our house,” he said with a smile. “Art was demystified to me. I remember...

When Tori Luecking was 16, an anonymous member at Congregation Shaare Emeth paid for her to visit Israel for the first time. She was fascinated with the country ever since she began Hebrew school, and her first trip to Israel changed the course of her...

While Jews in his former home, St. Louis, were still celebrating Shavuot, Dr. Morris Hartstein was driving from his office in Herzliya, Israel to perform emergency surgery on a child who had an abscess in his eye socket caused by severe sinusitis. Even...

RAANANA, Israel — In August 2014, Dr. Morris Hartstein went on a trip to Gondar, Ethiopia, where thousands of Ethiopians seeking to immigrate to Israel live and wait while Israel considers their eligibility to make aliyah.On his second day there, Hartstein...

Kansas City’s Metcalf South Mall in 2011 was a virtual ghost town of gated entrances, empty parking lots and closed storefronts. But one last establishment owned by the bubbly, big-hearted Sonia Warshawski remained open: her colorful tailor shop.Sonia’s...