BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 13, 2012
Jeanne Zorensky, who owned a popular Clayton antiques store in the 1970s, and who was a lifetime supporter and active member of Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel (BSKI) Congregation, died Monday, June 11, 2012 at her home in Clayton. She was 83 years and...
By Rabbi Roxanne J.S. Shapiro
• Published April 25, 2012
The double portion Tazria-Metzora is abundant with everything we need to know about dealing with skin diseases and bodily infections. Offering us more than a search on the Internet, we are taught not only the signs of these diseases, but how we should...
Last week when I took a walk with my 2½ year old to the park where we have had a small community garden plot for the last year, I did not expect to see resilient winter edibles, lettuces, kale, broccoli; forgotten foodstuff that I thought had surely...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 12, 2012
The birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be marked this year on Monday, Jan. 16. Considering his major accomplishments as the leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement - for which he earned a well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize - it is still hard...
The Green Party candidate for the French presidency has called for national holidays on Yom Kippur and the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Green Party leader Eva Joly said in a speech Wednesday that she wanted, "Jews and Muslims to be able to celebrate...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
Assi Gastfraind has his audience's full attention. As he looks into young faces as bright as the Sunday morning sunlight streaming into this classroom tucked comfortably behind Bais Abraham's sanctuary, every question seems to elicit a sea of eager waving...
Rabbi Carnie Shalom Rose
• Published January 4, 2012
"We set out from Chorev and traversed the entire vast and awful (OR) great and awesome desert that you all saw, along the road to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us." - Deuteronomy 1:19 "Abba...Abba...you awake?" Truth...
By Abigail Miller, Freshman, Ladue Horton Watkins
• Published December 14, 2011
Many Jewish teens have moved from city to city, and at one time or another, ended up in St. Louis. Such teens are Jake Bergman, 14, Sam Kahn, 14 and Rachel Mitchell, 15. Each has moved once, twice, or even more than three times, and experienced multiple...
By Dasee Berkowitz, NEW YORK
• Published October 12, 2011
But are you happy? No, this isn't your mother wanting another update on your life. It's not Dr. Phil's provocative question through your TV/computer screen as you sit (safely) on your couch. And it isn't someone reading you the Declaration of Independence...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 12, 2011
It was the day before Rosh Hashanah when Norm Berkowitz finally felt that Congregation Kol Am could be forced to disband."I got a piece of concrete information where I knew then that we were not going to make it," reflected Berkowitz, who, as president,...
By Rabbi Brad Horwitz
• Published September 28, 2011
During this season of the Jewish High Holidays, it is our responsibility to do tshuvah (repentance). Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur there are ten days called Aseret Yemei Tshuvah or the Ten Days of Repentance. It is this time when we focus on our...
By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 21, 2011
Rosh Hashanah, which celebrates the birth of the world, is the most regal of all the Jewish holidays. I can recall as a child being amazed at how different our synagogue looked for the holiday, with the Torah crowns and breastplates polished until they...
