A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

If ignorance is bliss, we are living in joyful times

If ignorance is bliss, we are living in joyful times

Gary Nachman, ADL Plains States Regional DirectorPublished October 20, 2021

If ignorance is bliss, it would seem we are living in joyful times. I read an article this weekend about a small group of individuals demanding UNL ease their COVID prevention policies, decrying voluntary proof of vaccination, and refuting the...

Jewish veterans’ gravestones vandalized in Florida

JTAPublished March 7, 2012

Jewish gravestones were vandalized at a veteran's cemetery in Florida. At least 13 tombstones decorated with a Star of David, gravesites of Jewish veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, were toppled or dug out of the ground over the weekend at the...

Anti-Semitic messages at Florida restaurant investigated

Published March 6, 2012

An investigation has been opened into anti-Semitic messages left at a kosher restaurant in South Florida. The FBI and the Broward County Sheriff's Office are conducting an investigation into a series of hate messages left at the Mozart Café in Deerfield...

Proposed shopping center on deportation site is protested

JTAPublished February 29, 2012

PRAGUE -- Opponents of a proposed shopping center to be built on the site where Jews were deported to Nazi death camps want to ensure that an appropriate monument also is erected. Protesters wearing yellow Stars of David and pushing empty shopping carts...

Lauder rips fine for Italian parliamentarian who blasted anti-Jewish cartoon

JTAPublished January 24, 2012

ROME—Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, has expressed "outrage" that an Italian parliament deputy and journalist was fined for writing an article sharply criticizing a satirical cartoon that featured stereotypically Jewish depictions...

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