By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 4, 2020
With a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan, Sally Altman spent nearly 40 years championing public health issues and access to quality health care for all. So it should come as no surprise that on today’s ballot, Altman...
Most Americans feel more patriotic as July 4 approaches, even under current conditions. In a presidential election year, with many state and local issues and offices on the ballot as well, that sentiment may be particularly strong.The best way to put...
I never thought half birthdays meant anything until I turned 17½ on April 1. It had meaning because this is when I am legally allowed to register to vote in Missouri. The only problem is, I don’t know if I’ll get to vote this November.Believe it...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 20, 2020
Media wunderkind Gabe Fleisher, son of Central Reform Rabbi Randy Fleisher and teen host of “Wake Up to Politics” on St. Louis Public Radio, will lead a discussion with Chicago-based author and journalist Jeff Fleischer at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8 at...
Furious about people getting shot and killed?
There is only one solution: Speak up to make your position on gun violence known to legislators. Contact every person in elected office who refuses to consider any safety proposal designed to save lives,...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published December 21, 2018
Preventing legitimate voters from going to the polls is bad, but rejecting the will of the voters after elections are settled may be even worse.Consider what’s happening in Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan.In Missouri, voters who opposed right-to-work...
“The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.”— William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”The events unfolding over the past few days have revealed a deadly poison at the...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published November 1, 2018
At Sunday’s community vigil to commemorate victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue murders, the most enthusiastic audience response came when the crowd was urged to exercise their power at the ballot box to put their priorities in place.At a time when events...
First, women marched in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., and in thousands of other cities. The next year, they did it again because the dangerous consequences of the current White House administration’s policies were crystal clear.
And now a record...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIALS
• Published October 4, 2018
Whether you agreed with the process or not, last week’s dramatic Supreme Court confirmation hearing had to impress on everyone the importance of voting.With razor-thin margins in both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate, and the rancorous...
Midterm elections are attracting more attention than usual this year and, as they approach, the focus on the possibility of voter fraud is growing sharper. So is the attention to efforts that block legitimate voters from going to the polls. Two recent...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published November 9, 2016
For decades the conventional wisdom was that there was an almost monolithic “Jewish vote,” representing all streams of Judaism as well as secular and non-observant Jews. Politicians of both major parties would court the Jewish vote by citing support...
