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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

Cantor Ron Eichaker from United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis
traveled with his wife, Heidi, to lead Shabbat services in Joplin,
Mo. at the city’s sole synagogue, also called United Hebrew.
Eichaker visited the site with one congregant of the Joplin
synagogue who lost his home during the devastating tornado that
struck the city. While the congregant, Steve Fisher, was speaking
with a FEMA representative, Cantor Eichaker offered three prayers:
 the afternoon Shabbat prayers facing East; then, facing St. John’s
Hospital, he offered the Eil Malei Rachamim for the dead and a Mi
Shebeirach for the living, the volunteers and professionals
involved in the clean up.

Live, from St. Louis, It’s ‘Friday Night Live’

By Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished February 15, 2012

Earlier this month, United Hebrew Congregation began broadcasting its Friday night Shabbat services live from its website at www.unitedhebrew.org. Anyone who has access to a computer and cannot physically be in attendance can simply log in and view and...

Tal Recht sings on stage with Rick Recht.

Recht’s Jewish Rock Radio hits new milestone

By Dan Durchholz, Special to the Jewish LightPublished December 28, 2011

In the last few months, Jewish Rock Radio, the St. Louis-based Internet radio station, achieved several notable milestones. For one thing, the station celebrated its first anniversary. Jewish Rock Radio, which can be accessed at http://jewishrockradio.com,...

Rick Recht

Rick Recht starts national PJ Library tour at JCC

Published December 14, 2011

Rick Recht will kick off a national PJ Library concert tour in St. Louis with a free concert for children at 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19 at the Jewish Community Center's Staenberg Complex in the Carl & Helene Mirowitz Performing Arts Center, 2 Millstone...

Rabbi James Bennett

Why is discussing Israel so difficult?

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish LightPublished September 7, 2011

Rabbi James Bennett of Congregation Shaare Emeth can't help but chuckle a bit when asked if debate over Mideast policy is different inside the Jewish State than it is within the largest Jewish community in the world, the United States. "It's one of the...

Jewish musician, Rick Recht, leads a Shabbat service at Innsbrook on Friday, May 27.

Innsbrook Institute music festival features Cantor Sharon Nathanson

By Leanne Ortbals, Jewish Light InternPublished June 8, 2011

Daniel Kopp, a 2011 Ladue Horton Watkins High School graduate, looks forward to majoring in music performance at Rice University this fall. But before he gets there, Kopp, a cellist, is excited to be returning for his third summer to the 11th annual Innsbrook...

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