A congregational rabbi said there were no innocents in Gaza. The blowback was fierce.
Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham's Facebook post upset some congregants. But others shared his sentiment.
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News A Jewish day school hired a former ceasefire activist. Then came the backlash.
The head of Mirowitz Jewish Community School said 'feedback from many community members' led to decision
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Food St. Louis’ only kosher deli closes after 60 years — and a lawsuit involving $150,000 in unpaid bills
Kohn’s Kosher Meat and Deli opened in 1963 and was beloved as one of St. Louis’ few Jewish delis, kosher or non
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Art How Richard Serra found infinity within the void
The son of a Russian-Jewish mother and a Spanish father used his art to change minds and alter time and space
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Culture Charles Lindbergh was a vicious antisemite. Why does St. Louis publicly honor him?
It's time for the midwestern city to reckon with the legendary airman's antisemitism
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Culture In St. Louis, a Torah curtain tells the story of a woman of valor
In the basement of the Saint Louis Art museum a luminous tapestry — the centerpiece of the exhibit “Signed in Silk: Introducing a Sacred Jewish Textile” — dazzles as if lit from within. The acquisition of this 18th century Italian ark curtain, or parokhet, created by the Jewish teenage girl Simhah Viterbo in Ancona, Italy,…
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Fast Forward A rabbi called them bullies. Now St. Louis ‘gun couple’ faces indictment.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed loaded guns, fingers on the trigger, at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched through their neighborhood, have been indicted by a grand jury for exhibiting firearms and tampering with evidence, The Associated Press reported. The McCloskeys have in the past also come into conflict with…
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Culture Amid battle over St. Louis’s name, Archdiocese defends saint who persecuted Jews, Muslims
Weeks after activists in St. Louis, Missouri began calling for the city to tear down the most notable statue of its namesake — and rename itself — the local Archdiocese has come out in defense of the embattled 13th-century saint. King Louis IX, the only French king ever to be canonized, routinely persecuted French Jews…
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