This story was originally published on Aug 10, 2011 Jewish Americans have always taken pride in the fact that according to widely held beliefs and published sources, the original Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), founding editor and publisher of the...

Most American Jews are familiar with the life and career of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the Kentucky-born legal scholar who excelled at Harvard Law School when few Jews were admitted to that university, and who was later nominated by President Woodrow Wilson...

Welcome to "Cohnipedia," a new column suggested by Larry Levin, CEO/Publisher of the St. Louis Jewish Light, based on a funny gift I received from the staff four years ago on my 40th anniversary at the paper. In a clever parody of "Wikipedia," the Light...