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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

Matthew Bronfman, center, is made an honorary citizen by the mayor of Otaci, the town in Moldova where his great grandfather Samuel Bronfman was born.

For Matthew Bronfman, a ‘surrealistic’ return to the Old Country

By Gavin Rabinowitz, JTAPublished June 10, 2012

OTACI, Moldova -- After just half an hour the little blue tour bus painted with smiling dolphins died with a smell of something burning, leaving Matthew Bronfman stranded next to a muddy field somewhere in rural Moldova. It was a surreal start to what...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama meet March 5, 2012 in the White House Oval Office to discuss coordinating policy on Iran.

Obama and Netanyahu disagree, in private and in public

By Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished March 6, 2012

WASHINGTON -- President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree, at least in principle: Keep the talk on what to do about Iran behind closed doors. But once they're behind those doors, they can’t agree -- and they can’t seem to resist...

German court tosses conviction of Holocaust-denying bishop

JTAPublished February 23, 2012

BERLIN -- A German court has set aside a guilty verdict against a Holocaust-denying bishop on a technicality, but the defendant will face justice again, prosecutors say. The Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg on Wednesday threw out the conviction of British...

Lauder criticizes proposed change in Polish restitution process

JTAPublished February 17, 2012

World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder criticized plans by the Polish government to change the way communal property is restituted. A government proposal currently under discussion would change the current system, instituted in 1997, in which specially...

Lauder rips fine for Italian parliamentarian who blasted anti-Jewish cartoon

JTAPublished January 24, 2012

ROME—Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, has expressed "outrage" that an Italian parliament deputy and journalist was fined for writing an article sharply criticizing a satirical cartoon that featured stereotypically Jewish depictions...

St. Louis Torah Mitzion Kollel plans gala dinner

Published November 23, 2011

St. Louis Torah Mitzion Kollel (TMK) will hold a Gala 9th Anniversary Dinner at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3 at Clayton High School Commons, 1 Mark Twain Circle in Clayton.Honorees at the dinner will be Rav Boaz Genut, the founding Shaliach of St. Louis TMK...

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