Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 28, 2020
It’s been more than two months since a professional sport was played in the U.S., and it may be late summer before Major League Baseball considers playing a regular season game. Now, imagine you’re a sportswriter who needs to churn out five columns...
I’ve said my goodbyes to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Not to the newspaper, but to the building at 900 North Tucker Blvd. where the paper’s essence has come to life and taken shape for the past 60 years, a third of them with me working in it.
This...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 1, 2012
Late last week, a number of friends and former colleagues at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch learned that they no longer had jobs. Several of them had been called at home Thursday night, after they had worked their shifts during the day, to be told the news....
The St. Louis Naturally Occurring Retirement Community invites the community for an evening of “Banjos and Brass,” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 21 at the JCC Staenberg Family Complex Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. ...
“Jacob and Jack,” the final production of the New Jewish Theatre’s 2011-2012 season, combines elements of contemporary and Yiddish theater in a classic marital farce complicated by dual role-playing. It will be presented from May 3-20 in the Wool...
The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival will hold two special events in May—one featuring Delia Ephron and another with Neil Sedaka. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch joins the Festival to present Girls Night Out with “Quirk...
When John Preece takes the stage of the recently restored Peabody Opera House to star as Tevye in its production of “Fiddler on Roof, he will be at least the eighth major actor to portray that classic role on a St. Louis stage. Preece is also the first...
By Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-cheif emeritus
• Published February 23, 2012
Forest Park was aptly described as "The Jewel of St. Louis" by co-authors Sally J. Altman and Richard H. Weiss in their coffee table book of that title a few years back. Lest St. Louisans take for granted the beautiful public park, which draws 12 million...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 22, 2012
David M. Grebler, highly respected for his leadership of the Missouri/Southern Illinois Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League and as president of the St. Louis Jewish Light Board of Trustees from 2005-2007, died Thursday, Feb. 16, at MD...
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...
Two weeks ago, the Associated Press moved a story detailing plans for television coverage leading up to and through the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Television viewers who want to immerse themselves," wrote the AP's David...
BY RABBI HOWARD KAPLANSKY
• Published June 15, 2011
The June 8 issue of the Jewish Light included, as part of its "Can We Talk?" series, two perspectives on "The Death of Klinghoffer," an opera to be presented by Opera Theatre St. Louis. The opera derives its title from the murder, by Palestine Liberation...
