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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

Stacey Newman

Hate has no place here

Stacey NewmanPublished February 25, 2021

A prominent Missourian from Cape Girardeau died last week, and elected leaders were quick to applaud or acknowledge his “controversial” work. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch described Rush Limbaugh’s longtime national radio program with a reach of...

Joan Lipkin

Collaborative event seeks to addess ‘war on women’

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished May 9, 2012

Joan Lipkin has had it. The artistic director of That Uppity Theatre Company says she is completely disgusted by the use of misogynous language and the flood of anti-female rhetoric on the part of the broadcast media on every channel and elected officials...

Editorial: Notorious

Published March 7, 2012

So Missouri is going to erect a sculpture to a talk-show host who calls women sluts and prostitutes, and whose main mission is to spew hate? We thought Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) gave Missouri a black eye when she spoke out against child labor...

 

Contraception debate a particularly bitter pill amid election-year politics

By Eric MinkPublished March 7, 2012

I confess to a certain comic fascination with the clown-car, train-wreck, seltzer-in-the-pants-on-fire Republican presidential nominating process. After the election, I suspect Ron Suskind, Jon Alter or Bob Woodward will write a book revealing that people...

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