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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

What is it about Israel that wins Nobels?

By Linda Gradstein, JTA, JERUSALEMPublished October 12, 2011

Dan Shechtman remembers the day he was kicked out of a research group because of the theory that last week won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry."Read this book. What you say is impossible," the group leader at the National Bureau of Standards in Maryland,...

Robbie Gringas

Tent or Tank? Contemplating Israel’s overwhelming complexity

By Robbie GringrasPublished September 21, 2011

Israel's complexity, and the nature of the world's response to it, is in danger of defeating us as a community.How can we say when a fiery piece of theater is "anti-Semitic," and when it is simply "courageous and challenging"? How do we know when a documentary...

Eran Shayshon

To help Israel, Jews must broaden the tent

By Eran ShayshonPublished August 17, 2011

TEL AVIV - Amid global events of the past few years that are changing the world - the rising power of the BRICs economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China), the global economic crisis, the rise of social networks and, most recently, the popular uprisings...

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