(JTA) — British author JK Rowling offered her support in a tweet to a Muslim-supported crowdfunding campaign to repair a vandalized St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery — spurring a big upsurge in donations. Rowling, the author of the popular Harry Potter series of books, on Wednesday morning uin Britain tweeted a link to an article about the…
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”) the recent vandalism of a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery on his show Monday night. In doing so, he mentioned that some of his great-grandparents and other relatives are buried there. Over 170 gravestones were toppled in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery in University City, Missouri. “I don’t have to have a personal…
A St. Louis Jewish cemetery is repairing dozens of headstones toppled or damaged by vandals over the weekend, and accepting donations to the restoration efforts on its website. Repairs now underway at Chesed Shel Emeth, the historic Jewish cemetery, where vandals knocked over 150+ headstones yesterday. pic.twitter.com/QIUotjvuqq — Kiya Edwards (@KSDKkiya) February 21, 2017 Police…
(JTA) — President Donald Trump denounced anti-Semitism a day after bomb threats to at least 10 Jewish community centers across the country and a large-scale cemetery vandalism in the St. Louis area. Under pressure to condemn anti-Semitism in the wake of what has been called an uptick in incidents since he was elected, Trump told…
In 1939, U.S. officials turned away a passenger liner packed with 900 desperate Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Denied rescue, the ship turned back to Europe, where hundreds of the refugees were slaughtered in Nazi death camps. In honor of today’s observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish educator and activist Russel Neiss set up…
Sigmund Zlodak felt fine when he settled into his First Class seat on the 7 PM flight to St. Louis. Sig was the chief accountant for an investment firm in St. Louis; he had attended a two-day tax seminar in Denver, and he felt mentally fatigued after his close attention to the lectures on new…
A 20-year-old employee at the St. Louis Jewish Community Center has been arrested and charged with raping a child. William “Billy” Hogenmiller was charged Tuesday with rape in the first degree, the St. Louis Jewish Light reported the following day, after being arrested Feb. 26 by St. Louis County police. Hogenmiller previously worked at the…
The hardest part about getting arrested was when they took away my necklace. I had not mentally prepared myself for it, probably because I forgot that I was even wearing it. It is a gold chain with three charms, each bearing the initial of one of my children. The necklace, and subsequent charms, were given…
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