Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
Between work conference calls, Olga Gorodetsky anxiously checks text messages from her mother Valentina Timoshina. They live in vastly different circumstances. Gorodetsky is in her second-floor home office in Chesterfield and Timoshina is hiding out in...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published February 28, 2022
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Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...
Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback, The Forward
• Published February 26, 2022
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In 1911, my grandpa Jake was born in the small Hungarian village of Torun in the Carpathian Mountains....
Distracted by political theater, we’re missing something significant, something more important than the admittedly historic dimensions of an ongoing impeachment inquiry into the actions of a sitting U.S. president.
We’re missing the elemental...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published October 10, 2019
The release of a reconstructed transcript of a questionable phone conversation between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has triggered a formal impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. House Speaker Nancy...
The logo of the Eurovision Song Contest is displayed during the 2019 national selection show in Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 23, 2019. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
What is your first Jewish memory? That is a question I was recently asked and asked of others while on a trip. I was privileged to visit Kiev, Ukraine with Tim Stern, vice chairmain of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis Board of Directors and annual...
The American Joint Distribution Committee has had to mobilize extra assistance in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the wake of extreme winter weather. An emergency winter response system was activated to provide additional care to tens of...
JERUSALEM—The first Conservative rabbi to serve in the Ukraine will be ordained this week. Reuven Stamov, 38, a native of the Crimea, Ukraine, on Feb. 3 will be the 82nd rabbi to be ordained by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary. Following his ordination,...
