By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 28, 2016
Forty-two students at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School were able to learn more about the history of the Civil Rights Movement during a recent trip through America’s Deep South.“During that time, people still came together to fight for what they...
Thank you for Jewish community’s support of Arts & Faith St. LouisThe Jewish community played a central role in the successful efforts which made the 2001 production of the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” in St. Louis an opportunity for building...
By Rabbi Scott Slarskey
• Published September 21, 2016
The Middle School students of the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School had studied historical events that precipitated struggles for racial equality in the 1960s. They explored literature capturing divergent perspectives on lived experiences and the...
Kolot, the St. Louis Jewish women’s choir, welcomes new members as it begins a new season. Sopranos are particularly needed this year. No auditions are required. The choir meets on Tuesday evenings from September through May. Kolot was founded...
Nick of timeWhen Ted Grazman was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2000, at age 59, he wanted to do everything he could to help those studying this brain disorder to understand it better, his wife Marsha recalled the other day.Alzheimer’s, the...
Making MemoriesIn the course of 35-plus years as a journalist, I have gone to more press conferences than I care to count, or can even remember. But I promise you none was more memorable than the one I attended Monday at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published May 4, 2016
A staff member at H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy received a threatening phone call Monday morning, prompting the school administration to evacuate the building and eventually dismiss students for the day. After receiving the call around 9 a.m. from a male,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2016
As the school year winds to a close, a handful of seventh-graders at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School are working to help educate their peers in the community on the tragedy of the Holocaust.“I’ve learned a lot about how the survivors have been...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published April 13, 2016
Rabbi Susan Talve of Central Reform Congregation shared a story last week at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School about feeling uncomfortable presiding over an Orthodox man’s funeral. She told the story sitting a few chairs away from Rabbi Hyim Shafner...
By Margaret Gillerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 24, 2016
Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman of Richmond Heights has some “most favorite lobbyists” and she’s not afraid to name them.They’re “the fourth graders from Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School,” Newman wrote on Facebook. She also displayed...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published February 24, 2016
A series of scary incidents over the last few weeks in the St. Louis Jewish community as well as in Jewish communities elsewhere have forced local organizations and institutions to test their security plans.Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School in Creve...
In February, Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School held its inaugural Carol Rubin Day of Jewish Music, Study and the Arts — a full day of using Jewish texts as inspiration for visual art, storytelling, drama and music, capped off with a Dan Nichols...
