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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

Jewish entrepreneur David Dresner is opening a global pot sticker restaurant called Crispy Edge next month in the Tower Grove neighborhood. The idea for the restaurant was inspired by his grandfather, who cultivated Dresner’s love of pot stickers.

Pot sticker restaurateur, NJT’s new season, cats on film

Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished March 7, 2018

Edgy eateryCrispy Edge, a new pot sticker restaurant owned and operated by local Jewish entrepreneur and Washington University graduate, David Dresner, will open in early April in the Tower Grove neighborhood.Dresner, 30, who attends Central Reform Congregation...

Long lines of customers formed at Pratzel’s in 2011 after word spread that the longtime kosher bakery would close after nearly a century of serving the area.

Survey offers data on local kosher dining preferences

By Eric Berger, Staff WriterPublished February 1, 2017

St. Louis Jews want to eat at a kosher Mediterranean or Israeli-style restaurant in University City, according to a new survey published by Chabad of Greater St. Louis. That location and style of restaurant is the sort that garnered the most interest...

Saved by the Max recreates the diner hangout featured in the early 1990s teen sitcom ‘Saved by the Bell.’ The pop-up diner, currently in Chicago, will go on a ‘national tour’ next year.

Veggie Tales, Vilna style

Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished December 21, 2016

Veggie Tales, Vilna styleIf you think the “farm-to-table” movement is a fairly recent trend, think again.The Alice Waters of Vilna, Lithuania, a woman by the name of Fania Lewando, was serving farm-to-table vegetarian food in the 1930s to Yiddish...

Ben Poremba, at left, and his father, Jacob Poremba, at Olio restaurant last week. The senior Poremba was visiting from Israel.

New deli on horizon

Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished November 2, 2016

New deli on horizonBy now many of you have probably heard that local restaurateur and Israeli native Ben Poremba (of Elaia, Olio, Parigi and co-owner of La Patisserie Chouquette) plans to open a Jewish-style deli in St. Louis, hopefully by July 2017....

Kathryn Boswell and Michael Williams rehearse for the The Rep’s production of ‘Follies.’

2016 Fall arts guide

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE LIGHTPublished September 7, 2016

If arts organizations celebrated significant anniversaries with fireworks displays, the skies over St. Louis would be ablaze. This fall marks 50 years for the St. Louis Repertory Company and Dance St. Louis, 40 years for the Black Rep, 30 years for STAGES...

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Arts leaders sing enthusiastically about favorite restaurants

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished September 7, 2016

St. Louis is a great restaurant town, serving arts patrons and arts leaders alike. We asked movers and shakers in the arts community where and what they like to eat. Here are their responses. Warning: Reading this article will make you hungry. Gene...

Chef and owner Elie Harir emerges from his walk-in refrigerator with fresh vegetables.

Israeli chef serves up diverse tastes of the Mediterranean

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 20, 2010

Where some might have seen only a gap in the St. Louis culinary landscape Igal Alon and Elie Harir saw an opportunity. "St. Louis has a lot of different flavors and the restaurant business has really developed in the last couple of years," Alon said,...

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