Join the entire St. Louis Jewish community on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. to honor and remember those who have sacrificed for the State of Israel with a special ceremony in the J’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. Then, the following...
BY ERIC BERGER, STAFF WRITER
• Published April 11, 2018
Linda Spitzer Gavatin’s motivation for helping organize a celebration marking the 70-year anniversary of Israel’s founding comes from her love for the Jewish State.And that love comes in part from something that occurred 50 years ago this summer.That’s...
Through the Lubin-Green Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, 12 programs were offered funding for Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebrations. Events held by Congregation Shaare Emeth, the Jewish Community Center and the J’s...
Join the community at the JCC Staenberg Family Complex gym on Sunday, May 6 to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. All ages are welcome to enjoy activities, entertainment and food, featuring the return appearance...
By Dina Kraft, JTA, JERUSALEM
• Published May 11, 2011
In an elegant limestone building in a Jerusalem neighborhood that before 1948 was home to the city's Palestinian elite, a group of Jewish and Arab Israeli academics recently tried to untangle one of Israel's most complex and charged questions: the status...
By Dina Kraft, JTA, RAMAT GAN, Israel
• Published May 11, 2011
Ruth Farhi's eyes cloud with tears and her gaze turns from the camera recording her story as she tells of a memorable January night in 1948 that haunts her to this day.She and a bunch of friends were crammed into her one-room rooftop apartment, sitting...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 4, 2011
Remembrance followed by celebration will once again be the guiding themes of this year's observance of Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut."You can't really have one without the other," said Rabbi Brad Horwitz, director of the Helene Mirowitz Center for...
Leading up to Yom Ha'atzmaut on May 10, the Jewish Community Relations Council is asking the community to create an online video that answers one of three questions: Why do I support Israel? How do I support Israel? How can we advocate for Israel? Finished...
