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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

Ukrainian Jewish leader added to list of pro-Russia ‘traitors’

Ukrainian Jewish leader added to list of pro-Russia ‘traitors’

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTAPublished April 20, 2022

(JTA) — Ukraine’s government has placed Vadim Rabinovich, a lawmaker and Jewish community leader, on a list of 111 people it called traitors in the war with Russia. The list was published last week by Rukh Chesno, a nongovernmental organization...

Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol

Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol

Dovid Margolin, Chabad.orgPublished April 19, 2022

(Chabad.org/News via JNS) As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Ill and emaciated during the last two weeks...

Marty Rochester

Finding off ramp for Putin is best case resolution for Ukraine

MARTY ROCHESTERPublished April 3, 2022

As I am writing this op-ed, Ukraine is the No. 1 subject occupying worldwide media attention. We do not know how the Ukraine conflict will end. Predictions range from Russia annexing Ukraine to its settling for regime change to its willingness to restore...

How a 90-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor made it safely to Israel

Eli Beers, Special For The Jewish LightPublished March 17, 2022

Eli Beer is the founder of United Hatzalah of Israel, and President of the U.S.-based organization Friends of United Hatzalah. United Hatzalah of Israel is an independent, non-profit, fully-volunteer emergency medical services organization that provides...

CNN highlights Chabad's work in Ukraine

CNN highlights Chabad’s work in Ukraine

Menachem Posner, Chabad.orgPublished March 10, 2022

(Chabad.org) -- Reporting on the deepening humanitarian crisis in war-devastated Ukraine, CNN interviewed Chabad Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz, who is currently in Moldova, where Chabad-Lubavitch has been bringing thousands of Jewish refugees. Berkowitz...

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Jewish Trivia: Airbnb

MARK ZIMMERMAN, Special For The Jewish LightPublished March 7, 2022

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Airbnb users have booked rooms in Ukraine with a value of more than $2 million. This represents more than 60,000 nights of rental of Ukrainian houses, apartments and guest rooms....

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