The St. Louis Jewish Light is accepting applications for its Joseph J. Edlin Memorial Summer Journalism Internship. Mimi Edlin and her family established the scholarship to honor her late husband, Joseph J. Edlin. Joseph Edlin was a longtime Trustee and...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 25, 2012
B'nai mitzvah mitzvah When Central Reform Congregation members Michael Getty and Brian Vetruba decided to become b'nai mitzvah together, the couple wanted a mitzvah project that was not only meaningful to them but also beneficial to the entire St. Louis...
The Jewish Community Center will hold a used book sale from Sunday, Feb. 5 through Thursday, Feb. 9 at the JCC's Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive in Creve Coeur. Sunday, Feb. 5 is preview day—the only day with an admission charge...
The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, in partnership with the St. Louis Zoo, presents Israeli zoologist Avinoam Lourie, former head of the Haifa Zoo & Director of Israel's Wildlife Conservation Department, and St. Louis Zoo President Dr. Jeffrey Bonner,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published January 18, 2012
Last Sunday, the Roth family of Creve Coeur lost their home and all of their possessions in an early morning fire. Luckily, none of the family-parents Jane and Boaz and daughters Liat, 12; Sela, 8, and Orli, 1-were hurt in the three-alarm blaze that gutted...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 18, 2012
The numbers are a study in contrasts this year for the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Louis as the agency continues to pick its way through a turbulent economy and a rocky philanthropic environment. According to figures released Tuesday, the Jewish...
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...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
St. Louis attorney Michael Wetmore recalls watching his mother Trudy Hochster Wetmore quietly blessing his son in a German train station before the latter's departure to see a friend in Paris. "She turned around and said ‘The last time I was in this...
Viola Harvey Nance, wife of Rev. Earl E. Nance, Jr., will accept an interfaith award honoring her husband given by Temple Israel Friday, Jan 13. Unfortunately, Rev. Nance, pastor of Greater Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church, is continuing to recuperate...
New York Times best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow returns to St. Louis for a literary event presented by the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22 at Plaza Frontenac, 1701 S. Lindbergh Boulevard. Zaslow will share stories from his...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 11, 2012
Assi Gastfraind has his audience's full attention. As he looks into young faces as bright as the Sunday morning sunlight streaming into this classroom tucked comfortably behind Bais Abraham's sanctuary, every question seems to elicit a sea of eager waving...
MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO I wrote a story about Lilo Waxman's charming five-room dollhouse, which had not long before arrived from its hiding place in Germany. These miniature dollhouse rooms were handed down starting with Lilo's great-grandmother in 1852,...
