Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 18, 2022
This week's "Blast From The Past" photo featured some well-mannered teenagers, sitting with copies of the Jewish Light. The only information on the photo, which is part of the Light’s archives, is that it was taken at United Hebrew in 1967.
We asked...
While you were sleepingA favorite 2016 Jewish Light story of mine detailed Cantor Ron Eichaker’s mentoring of an Olympic hopeful in javelin throwing. Through the story readers come to know that Eichaker, whose cantorial day job is at United Hebrew,...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published March 7, 2018
Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg sat on a bus in Israel during a July trip sponsored by an Israel advocacy organization when someone started discussing former President Harry Truman’s friendship with Eddie Jacobson, a Jewish businessman from Kansas City. Rosenberg,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 28, 2016
A very foggy Christmas Day didn’t deter participants in the annual Jewish-Muslim Day of Community Service as both communities marked the sixth year of the event.“I think people really feel a need in these challenging times to show support from the...
Max Wild, 13, of Troop 21, has become an Eagle Scout, Boy Scouting’s highest rank. To attain Eagle, a Scout must earn at least 21 merit badges, display leadership and outdoor skills, demonstrate by example the Scout Oath and Law and complete a comprehensive...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published January 12, 2012
The birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be marked this year on Monday, Jan. 16. Considering his major accomplishments as the leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement - for which he earned a well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize - it is still hard...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 19, 2010
Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg has been appointed the next senior rabbi at United Hebrew Congregation in Creve Coeur. On Nov. 17, the congregation's Board of Trustees unanimously ratified the recommendation of the rabbinic search committee and made the appointment....
Block Yeshiva High School In September, Avital Shulman, a senior at Block Yeshiva High School received an Award of Excellence from the LMI/D3 Technologies Institute in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments during the STARS program. Dr....
It's 3:43 a.m. and my alarm is going off. I desperately hurry up and grab a cup of coffee and a piece of breakfast cake because the bus is leaving at 4 a.m. It's the seventh day of our Birthright trip and we are hiking Mt. Masada, a range of beautiful...
