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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

Hackers threaten to wipe Israel from the Internet

JTA • Published February 12, 2012

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Hackers threatened to remove all traces of Israel from the Internet and accused it of crimes against humanity on the same day that it crashed the Central Intelligence Agency's website. The hacker group Anonymous released a video on...

Avrom Honig and Bubbe

Bubbe’s recipes rise to the top

By Susie Davidson, JointMedia News Service • Published February 8, 2012

Mix together segments of social media and three tablespoons of sour cream. Cover with plastic wrap and set overnight. Garnish with applesauce, and serve. All together, you've got a thoroughly heimish, warm and comforting Internet sensation. It's not a...

Bishop Eddie Long apologizes for Torah scroll ceremony

JTA • Published February 6, 2012

Baptist Bishop Eddie Long has apologized for a church service in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and called a king. Last week during a service at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., Ralph Messer, a Messianic Jew and self-described...

Komen reverses course on Planned Parenthood, but supporters still upset

By Ben Harris, JTA • Published February 3, 2012

NEW YORK -- It took just hours for the protests against Susan G. Komen for the Cure to begin, and they quickly took on the fury and form of a full-blown movement. Online petitions were started. Calls poured forth to withhold donations from Komen for...

Israel to open criminal probe of Jerusalem mufti

JTA • Published January 24, 2012

JERUSALEM—Israel's attorney general has ordered police to launch an investigation of Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric after the mufti quoted a traditional text that called for killing Jews. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein on Tuesday asked the Israel...

Netanyahu orders probe of mufti’s speech

JTA • Published January 22, 2012

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's attorney general to open an investigation into Jerusalem's top Muslim cleric, who called for killing Jews. Mufti Mohammed Hussein, speaking last week at an event celebrating the 47th anniversary...

Vanessa Van Petten

Expert incorporates teen perspectives in ‘Radical Parenting’ advice

BY JAKE WEISMAN & JULIANA WISHNE , SENIOR, LADUE HORTON WATKINS & SENIOR, PARKWAY WEST • Published November 9, 2011

Vanessa Van Petten, author and youthologist, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Yom Limmud Day of Discovery for Teens on Sunday, Nov. 20, sponsored by the Central Agency for Jewish Education. The Jewish Light interviewed Van Petten recently about...

Jewish community needs a Jewish cultural policy

By Stephen Hazan Arnoff and Steven M. Cohen • Published July 20, 2011

NEW YORK - JDub Records, the innovative nonprofit Jewish music endeavor that discovered Matisyahu and numerous other artists, released 35 albums, and brought 150,000 participants to concerts and other events, announced last week that it would be closing...

Rav Shmuel

Unconventional rabbi combines music, humor

By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light • Published March 30, 2011

Many are aware of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the anti-Semitic work that has plagued the Jewish community for more than a century with lies about Judaic desire for world domination. Yet few would have thought of writing a song about it. "It...

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