by CJV | Jan 25, 2024 | Missouri, Updates
When a noxious letter appeared in the St. Louis Jewish Light, castigating Jewish communal leaders for not sharing false and antisemitic narratives about Israel, the leadership of CJV Missouri refused to stand idle. The result was an outstanding rebuke to the...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Jan 10, 2024 | Missouri, Family Values, Op-Eds
by Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light When the renowned Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky lived in Toronto in the 1940s, his synagogue presented him with a silver platter as a present for Purim. A few days later, one of the shul members saw Rav Kamenetsky in...
by Rabbi Ze'ev Smason | Nov 9, 2023 | Op-Eds, Missouri
by Rabbi Ze’ev Smason in the St. Louis Jewish Light Our Israeli brothers and sisters are under attack. So many lives have been taken. Families are bereft. So many are suffering the horrors of captivity. The depth of the evil perpetrators is unthinkable. In the...
by CJV | Nov 1, 2023 | Missouri, Coverage
by Ellen Futterman in the St. Louis Jewish Light More than 30 St. Louis Jewish community organizations, including rabbis and presidents of synagogues from every stream of Judaism, signed an open letter Wednesday to Rep. Cori Bush in response to her remarks about 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,...
