A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

The Jewish Light earned a first place award for Outstanding Website from the American Jewish Press Association. The award was one of five Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for 2011 received by the paper. 

Putting Jewish journalism into perspective

BY LARRY LEVIN, Publisher/CEOPublished June 20, 2012

As noted scholar and Jewish historian Jonathan Sarna suggested at the American Jewish Press Association (AJPA) annual conference last week in Philedelphia, news organizations such as the Jewish Light provide the first draft of our community history. ...

Daniel Pearl posthumously baptized in Mormon rite

JTAPublished February 29, 2012

Daniel Pearl was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a prominent deceased Jew discovered to have been baptized posthumously in recent weeks. Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and executed by terrorists in Pakistan in February...

Ex-Mich. Rep. gets year for role in terrorism funding

JTAPublished January 13, 2012

WASHINGTON -- A former Michigan congressman was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on for assisting a charity accused of funding Hamas and other terrorist groups. Mark Siljander, 59,  of Great Falls, Va., was sentenced Wednesday to charges...

Editorial: Printing Money

Published July 20, 2011

Do you expect your news sources (Jewish or otherwise) to have integrity? It seems like a simple question, doesn't it? If news outlets represent our source of facts on the happenings of individuals and institutions, then we would like to think that they...

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