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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

Local Jewish author dives into Woodstock ‘then and now’

Local Jewish author dives into Woodstock ‘then and now’

JUDITH NEWMARK, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 14, 2022

When Alex Ludwig was born in 1979, Woodstock was 10-year-old news. Of course, people remembered the festival, a counter-cultural phenomenon that drew some 500,000 kids to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for three days of peace, love and music. And what...

 Part of the crowd on the first day of the Woodstock Festival. Photo: Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell/Wikimedia Commons

‘Woodstock’ is strong, but misses festival’s Jewish story

BY NATE BLOOM, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 15, 2019

Woodstock: 50th anniversary“Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation” is a new offering in the PBS “American Experience” series. It premiered last Friday in St. Louis, but there is an encore showing Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. (Channel...

   

Then-cub journalists recall moon landing, Woodstock as breaking stories 50 years ago

By Robert A. Cohn & Dale SingerPublished July 18, 2019

Editor’s Note: With the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo 11 lunar mission and the Woodstock musical festival this summer, Jewish Light editorial writers Robert A. Cohn, 79, and Dale Singer, 70, take a break from crafting a traditional editorial to look...

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