Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 25, 2017
In the first two days of the newborn Trump administration, two opposite points of view collided forcefully:In his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump said he was for the people. In marches in St. Louis and across the nation the next day, millions...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 12, 2017
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — For the first time in its nearly two centuries of statehood, Missouri has inaugurated a person of Jewish faith as its governor.“The people have spoken and a new direction has been decided,” said Eric Greitens, moments after...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published January 11, 2017
For the first time since Missouri was admitted to the Union in 1821, our state has a Jewish governor. Yes, it is a big deal that Gov. Eric Greitens, who was sworn into office Monday, is a member of our community. Greitens, who attended Parkway North...
By Rabbi Micah Buck-Yael
• Published November 16, 2016
America has had a choice to make about its future. We have been casting our votes, and the results are in, and they are painful. No, I don’t mean the presidential election that took place Nov. 8 with all of the scapegoating, threats, anger and fear...
We are all still recovering from the shock of the 2016 presidential election. Virtually nobody, including the leading political scientists in the country, predicted the outcome that saw Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. We are left with deciphering...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published November 16, 2016
Jewish Democrats — and Jewish legislators — will have a harder time preventing Missouri from moving in a more conservative direction following the Republicans’ victory in the governor’s race and retention of control of the State House and Senate.Missouri...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 16, 2016
Missouri has elected Republican Eric Greitens as its first Jewish governor since the Show Me State was admitted to the Union in 1821. It has been a long road for Jewish candidates seeking to move into the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City. The highest...
I teach international relations. Few fields have undergone more change over the past 25 years than the study of world politics. Humanity has gone from sheer euphoria one moment — on 11/9 (the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, marking the end...
JERUSALEM — March 2013: Israelis protest against US President Barack Obama as they call for the release of Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish American who was jailed for life in 1987 on charges of spying on the United States, during a demonstration outside...
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: Alan Gross (L), recently released by Cuban authorities, makes brief remarks with his wife Judy (R) during a press conference at his lawyer's office shortly after arriving in the United States December 17, 2014 in Washington,...
Alan Gross, newly freed from a Cuban prison, making brief remarks with his wife, Judy, at a news conference at his lawyer’s office in Washington shortly after arriving in the United States, Dec. 17, 2014. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published May 30, 2012
Some Missouri voters too young to remember the sterling career of Sue Shear, the longest serving woman in the history of the Missouri House of Representatives and a passionate advocate for women’s rights, may not have understood the ham-fisted attempt...
