DANIEL SHANKER, FRESHMAN, YESHIVAT KADIMAH HIGH SCHOOL
• Published February 20, 2022
In the name “high school basketball” exists a very helpful indicator: high school.
That’s normally a useful clue, but not so with Jacob Genin, an eighth-grader at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, a Bais Abe congregant and a player on the...
ILANA BOYER and JORDAN EISEN
• Published May 20, 2021
For their entire time at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, almost every student looks forward to the eighth grade class’ annual trip to Israel. Sadly, like many other things this year, the trip was canceled for the second consecutive year due to...
The Kranzberg Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, has awarded $71,000 in grants to 16 Jewish programs for children, teens and young adults in St. Louis.The Foundation received requests totaling more than $187,000...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 31, 2020
Edan Shoghi, an energetic 9-year-old at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, enjoys playing soccer, basketball, tennis and Minecraft. But he really excels at chess.“What I like best about playing chess is strategy and tactics,” Edan said. “Let’s...
On May 14, more than 1,000 guests attended Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School’s online Gala in the Cloud. Together, they raised $296,000 to help Mirowitz weather this historic time with tuition relief, technology upgrades and professional development. The...
Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School welcomes the community to raise a glass and support the school during its “Gala in the Cloud” virtual fundraising event at 8:30 p.m. on May 14. “Our ‘Gala in the Cloud’ will be unlike any other gala, but...
By Ellie S. Grossman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 7, 2020
Alana Minoff, whose children range in age from 5 to 13, says it took her and her husband, Mike, at least the first six weeks “to get into the groove” of schooling their children from home. Even still, she says, some days are harder than others.“And...
By Ellie S. Grossman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 7, 2020
Shelley Hoffman Dean, mom of four kids ages nine through 13, is used to juggling a lot of things. Family, career, music, dance, art, and inspiring children to love Judaism is all in a day’s work. But teaching school to her own children during a pandemic...
By Ellie S. Grossman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 7, 2020
It didn’t take long for Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School to jump into action when the teachers and administration saw the school closures coming because of the coronavirus outbreak.“Most schools started spring vacation the week that Mayor Krewson...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published March 26, 2020
Cheryl Maayan, the head of Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, has in recent weeks learned the difference between two words: synchronous and asynchronous.“Synchronous learning is live-time when your class is with you; asynchronous learning is when...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 23, 2020
Congratulations to several students at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School for their award-winning dreidels in the 3rd Annual International #DoYouDreidel Design Competition hosted by Akiva School in Nashville, Tenn.The school invited students from Jewish...
More than 450 supporters of Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School will celebrate “Mirowitz in Bloom” on Sunday, May 5 at the school’s annual gala. The evening will highlight the generations of students who have bloomed into capable and ethical...
