Drastic cuts in number of refugees admitted puts vulnerable people at riskYour July 24 editorial “Go Back to Decency” notes the role of groups such as the International Institute in “help(ing) newcomers find security and peace in their new home.”...
Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published July 18, 2018
A 13-year-old boy from Afghanistan stands outside in south St. Louis, listening as firefighters explain to him and other campers how their truck and equipment works. He wears a blue baseball hat emblazoned with the word “Hollywood.” It provides...
Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben Shabat, at a press conference announcing the new agreement for handling asylum seekers and illegal African migrants in Israel, at...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, with Interior Affairs Minister Aryeh Deri, left, and National Security Council Chairman Meir Ben Shabat, at a press conference announcing the new agreement for handling asylum seekers at the Prime Minister’s...
By Rabbi Elizabeth Hersh
• Published February 15, 2017
Parashat Yitro is the ideal reading for a discussion about leadership and delegation. Moses’ father-in-law, Yitro, brings Zipporah and her two sons to Moses in the wilderness. After a reunion that involves sharing the accomplishments made only through...
A friend, with whom I frequently disagree politically but who has a big heart, shared a saying on Facebook that reads, “Not takin’ Syrian refugees and closin’ our borders isn’t ‘mean’ or ‘heartless.’ I lock my doors to my house every night....
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 8, 2017
The idea came to him one night recently. Russel Neiss was talking to a friend and colleague, Rabbi Charlie Schwartz of Cambridge, Mass., about the executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, which...
Do not let U.N. Security Council resolution divide our communityThe Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis believes in the power of people to come together to influence change in our region. Our capacity to make an impact is based on our ability...
Many Israelis, including whites, blacks. Arabs and Bedouins marched to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv during a human rights rally on 9 December 2011 marking the 63nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some 7,000 people attended the rally...
