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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

Thousands sign petition against Trump speech at Holocaust museum event

JTA • Published April 25, 2017

(JTA) — Thousands of American Jews have signed a petition challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s invitation to President Donald Trump to deliver the keynote remarks at the National Day of Remembrance.Launched Monday by Bend the Arc, a Jewish...

Trump says it’s ‘possible’ he will ditch Iran deal

JTA • Published April 24, 2017

WASHINGTON (JTA) — It’s “possible” that the United States will not remain in the Iran nuclear deal, President Donald Trump said.“I believe they have broken the spirit of the agreement,” Trump told The Associated Press. “There is a spirit...

Trump proclaims week of Holocaust remembrance

JTA • Published April 24, 2017

President Donald Trump delivering a statement on Syria from his Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., April 6, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)(JTA) — President Donald Trump described how “six million Jews had been brutally slaughtered,”...

Trump to visit US Holocaust museum this week

JTA • Published April 23, 2017

(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony.The ceremony will be held Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial...

J. Martin Rochester, Curators’ Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, is author of 10 books on international and American politics, including the recently published  “New Warfare:  Rethinking Rules for An Unruly World.”  In addition to teaching courses in international politics, international organization and law, and U.S. foreign policy, he has served as chair of the Political Science Dept. at UM-St. Louis.

Trump, Clinton must clarify foreign policies

By Marty Rochester • Published September 21, 2016

Traditionally, most American presidential elections are not determined by voter concerns about foreign policy and which candidate can better keep America safe. To the extent that voters cast their ballots based on candidate issue-positions, as opposed...

Practice Preaching

Jewish Light Editorial • Published July 20, 2016

Pieces in Tablet, The Forward and beyond this week took to task those activists who dipped their pens in the online poison inkwell to rip Modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein for agreeing to deliver an invocation at the Republican National Convention.As...

Eric Mink is a freelance writer and editor and teaches film studies at Webster University. He is a former columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Daily News in New York.  Contact him at ericmink1@gmail.com.

Champion of the working class? Candidate’s record suggests otherwise

By Eric Mink • Published July 6, 2016

The idea of Donald Trump as a crusading standard bearer for ordinary Americans — working class and middle class folks justifiably fed up with getting the short end of America’s economic stick — has always struck me as odd, almost to the point of...

Rabbi David Paskin, kneeling third from left, and other rabbis protesting Donald Trump’s speech at AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington, D.C. on March 21. 

Florida rabbi loses job after Trump protest at AIPAC

By Ben Sales, JTA • Published June 22, 2016

NEW YORK — A South Florida rabbi must leave his pulpit after his protest of Donald Trump’s speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference riled congregants.David Paskin, who serves as rabbi of the Conservative Temple Beth...

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