The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "destabilizing." “It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an interview...
Michael Frazier is the winner of BBYO’s AZA Oratory contest, the results of which were announced at BBYO’s International Convention 2012 taking place this week in Atlanta, Ga. He addressed the prompt: “Am I a Jewish American or American Jew? Jewish...
NEW YORK -- Andrew Silow-Carroll of the New Jersey Jewish News won the first David Twersky Journalism Award. Named for the paper's former editor who died of cancer in 2010 at age 60, the prize was awarded to Silow-Carroll for a column he wrote in September...
WASHINGTON -- A group of U.S. Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith leaders will take a six-city tour of Indonesia, Jordan and Israel to discuss the role of religion in advancing peace. The trip, which will include 12 religious leaders from the United States...
JERUSALEM -- The Muslim Brotherhood has threatened to "review" Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel if the United States cuts aid to Egypt. Congress threatened to cut or cancel aid to Egypt after Egyptian authorities filed charges on Feb. 6 against 43...
PRAGUE -- The Polish Senate has posthumously honored World War II hero Jan Karski for his work in revealing Nazi genocide taking place in Poland. During a special meeting Wednesday of Upper House of the Polish Parliament, guests including United States'...
By Alex Weisler, JTA
• Published February 15, 2012
ODESSA, Ukraine -- In a colorful room at the Tikva Children’s Home here, 30 young boys stand in two straight lines and wait for the cue signaling that they are to start singing. The children, students in a music class, are performing “Mind Your Manners”...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 15, 2012
A splendid production of "Race," which opened Friday at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, reaffirms the American Jewish playwright David Mamet's unique genius to write dialogue the way certain "bottom-feeders" of America speak while dealing with truly...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 15, 2012
Jewish Family & Children's Service closed last Thursday on a 24,000-square-foot building at 10601 Baur Boulevard in Olivette that will be the new home of the Harvey Kornblum Jewish Food Pantry. About 5,000 families a month use the food pantry, which...
In this contentious election season, some loud voices are trying to take us back 50 years to the days when legislatures routinely told Americans how they could behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Moreover, they're doing it in the guise of First...
‘Way of Heaven' was outstanding NJT play I am disappointed that I have not seen any positive reviews of the play "Way to Heaven" performed by the New Jewish Theatre. In my opinion, the production at the NJT was outstanding and is in fact one of the...
A new Kehillah (community) group at Shaare Zedek Synagogue is seeking to connect Jewish young adults in St. Louis with a sense of community and interesting, interactive events. For those who are post-college but pre-kids, or young Jewish adults looking...
