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

Greta Rosenstock (shown singing at right) performs during the ‘Jewish Rock Radio Live Across America - St Louis Sings” event at Congregation Shaare Emeth last week. Rosenstock is one of 12 finalists in the second annual Jewish Star Talent Search. Photo: Bill Motchan

St. Louis native among finalists in Jewish Star competition

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Jewish LightPublished November 14, 2019

Greta Rosenstock has a warm personality, a 1,000-watt smile and a golden voice. She also celebrates Judaism through music and song. Those qualities helped move the 23-year-old former St. Louisan into contention as a finalist in the 2019 Jewish Star Talent...

Storage room at Young Israel before being turned into a nursing station. 

A new kind of conversion, remembering VJ

Ellen Futterman, EditorPublished September 5, 2019

Making roomWhen Rachel Deutsch’s baby started fussing at Yom Kippur services last year, the young mom knew it was time to nurse. The only problem: She didn’t know where to comfortably breastfeed him at her Orthodox shul, Young Israel. “I went downstairs...

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