by Rabbi Yonason Goldson | Mar 23, 2025 | Op-Eds, Missouri
originally published in St. Louis Jewish Light Even after four decades, I can still visualize sitting in Professor Richard Levin’s classroom at the University of California when he introduced us to The Merchant of Venice. Clearly, he would have preferred to ignore the...
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson | Oct 12, 2023 | Missouri, Op-Eds
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson in the St. Louis Jewish Light My son thought he was going to Israel to spend the holidays with his sister and fiancee. Now he’s stationed at the Lebanon-Syria border. He completed his three years in an elite combat unit about five years ago,...
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson | Apr 11, 2023 | Op-Eds, Missouri
by Rabbi Yonason Goldson in the St. Louis Jewish Light When society lacks any common code of morals or ethics, values become a philosophical free-for-all. But in a culture built on the bedrock of core principles, a system of absolute values will naturally emerge. The...
