“Mah tovu ohalecha Yaakov, mishk’notecha Yisrael.” How lovely are your tents [people of] Jacob; your sanctuaries [people of] Israel.
I often have used this prayer to teach my young students that when visiting a friend’s beautiful synagogue...
RABBI DAVID A. REINHART
• Published October 27, 2022
This week’s Torah portion, Parashat Noach, tells the story of the eponymous Noah. Over six chapters (Genesis 6:9-11:32) and 153 verses, we read of Noah, the flood, the dove and olive branch, God’s promise to never again destroy the world and,...
BY MEGAN RUBENSTEIN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 4, 2022
One stitch at a time, a group of United Hebrew Congregation members is working to lift the spirits of fellow congregants.
“A Stitch and a Prayer” consists of about 15 women who come together to knit and crochet lap blankets every Tuesday afternoon...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 11, 2022
Alden Solovy is an author, poet and liturgist. Beginning Feb. 18, he will join United Hebrew Congregation for a six-week stint as liturgist-in-residence. The Light caught up with Solovy in advance of his visit to St. Louis. See below for more information...
ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published August 26, 2021
Earlier this summer, Lonnie Grosman constructed the UH beehive boxes out of pine wood and purchased a bee package of sorts for the largest of the three hives. The package came in a screened cage with three pounds of bees, including a queen (she is the egg layer – without her, no more bees), which he put it in the back seat of his car and drove to the synagogue.
CANTOR-RABBI RON EICHAKER
• Published June 9, 2021
Not much is more disconcerting than members of one’s tribe engaging in passionately bitter and contentious arguments about leadership and hierarchy. “Who says you are the voice of this family? You don’t speak for me!” “Just because you had some...
By Cantor-Rabbi Ronald D. Eichaker
• Published April 2, 2021
This particular Passover observance, while it may be dominated by the external expressions inspired by time-bound practices, has presented us with an opportunity to recalculate our future by recalibrating our reason for being.Most of us, myself included,...
Listing below provided by the St. Louis Rabbinical and Cantorial Association, with additional information from congregations directly• Bais Abraham (Orthodox): Daily Tehillim, Halakha and Mishnah Monday through Friday at 7 a.m. Online at https://zoom.us/j/297962649...
United Hebrew Congregation will welcome musicians Mikey Pauker and Billy Jonas as artists-in-residence from Friday, Feb. 21 through Sunday, Feb. 23. Pauker and Jonas will take part in a Friday night Shabbat service, lead a Q&A Lunch ‘N’ Learn...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published November 14, 2019
The U.S. Army was monitoring a largely Jewish group of protesters who traveled in August from St. Louis to Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla., to protest the planned detention of migrant children at the facility, according to a report in The Intercept.The digital...
By Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg
• Published July 5, 2019
In this week’s parashah, we meet Korach, for whom this parashah is named. He is Moses’ and Aaron’s first cousin and is known as a rebel, as he amassed 250 Israelites to join him in challenging the authority of Moses and Aaron. Korach says to Moses...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published June 27, 2019
United Hebrew Congregation has hired a new executive director who has long ties to the Reform synagogue. Daryl Rothman and his wife, Linda, married married in 1995 with UH Rabbi Howard G. Kaplansky officiating. “We had been talking to various rabbis...
