By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published April 1, 2021
After the Washington Nationals won the World Series in 2019, Abby Prywitch and her fellow student journalists at Parkway Central High School brainstormed an idea about an alum they would like to interview: Max Scherzer, a star pitcher on the Nationals.“Right...
BY RABBI SETH D. GORDON
• Published February 21, 2018
Like you, I learned about the school shooting in Florida from the news. But unlike you, I heard the news from Israel, where I am studying. And probably unlike you, I had a very personal connection: My nephew Zachary and my niece Zoe were in that school.I...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published October 4, 2017
The Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis plans to expand its Student to Student program to other cities after receiving a $15,000 grant.JCRC, which started the program in 1992, sends Jewish high school students in the St. Louis area to schools...
BY DAVID BAUGHER, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published September 27, 2017
FULTON, Mo. – During a talk last week at the lecture series made famous by Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders stressed multilateralism, diplomacy and themes of social justice as he laid out his vision of American...
BY JESSICA GOLDBERG, SENIOR, JOHN BURROUGHS High SCHOOL
• Published May 11, 2017
Serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ohr Chadash this year and as a staff writer for the three years prior has been an honor and a privilege. My experiences writing stories about the exceptional teenagers in our Jewish community who are effectuating positive...
Regarding the Point/Counterpoint columns in the St. Louis Jewish Light of May 3 (“WashU Hillel explains decision on Breaking the Silence exhibit” and “Voices of dissent should be welcome in ‘big tent’):Once again, Jewish life on campuses in...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 15, 2017
Rebecca Bardach and her husband, Eliot Goldstein, grew up on opposite coasts — she in Berkeley, Calif.; he in Silver Spring, Md. — attending a combination of Jewish day and public schools. After each made aliyah in the late 1990s and married, they...
By Harrison Friedman, Senior, Fasman Yeshiva High School
• Published January 11, 2017
The idea of taking a gap year between high school and college has long been common in places such as Europe, but it has not been very popular in America until recently. Religious gap year programs, however, have been around for many years, and Jewish...
By Greg svirnovskiy, Junior, Marquette High School
• Published January 11, 2017
For high schoolers all over the country, senior year has become synonymous with one thing: the college selection process. This month, thousands of seniors will learn the results of their early decisions and early action applications just as millions...
The Center for Jewish Learning will offer a new Melton School Scholars Courses on “Shiv’im Panim: 70 Faces of Wisdom,” starting Thursday, Jan. 19.The Melton course is designed to engage students through the study of 70 different Torah passages,...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published December 28, 2016
Torah Prep School of St. Louis recently underwent a $2.5 million renovation of its girls division school in University City. The Orthodox school, which instructs students from preschool through eighth grade, now features a new roof, as well as new heating...
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...
