Oct 8, 2013 | Miscellaneous
If you think that title was long, it pales in comparison with our day. It’s just past midnight and we’ve only just brought the curtain down on our second and final full day in Tel Aviv. Following a well-earned good night’s sleep (and, for some, a...
Oct 7, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Shalom from Tel Aviv! It is just past 11 pm Israel time and most of us have already headed for our hotel rooms, fully exhausted but looking back fondly on an exhilarating Day 1 and Day 1A. I say Day 1 and Day 1A because, as Alan Fine pointed out, many of us have...
Oct 3, 2013 | Miscellaneous
At the time of this post, we, the members of the Rubin Israel Experience Class of 2013 are less than 72 hours away from the first step in our transformative, maiden voyage to Israel. Actually, “first step” isn’t quite accurate. Our story really began...
Oct 2, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Rachel Pereles has always been passionate about Federation. “Federation has touched every part of my life—from JCC summer camps to youth groups to going to Israel to Hillel on my college campus, Federation has always been there,” she says. Now Rachel, having recently...
Oct 2, 2013 | Miscellaneous
While locals are consumed by post-season baseball fever, another team of Cardinals is finishing up a banner year all the way over in Israel. Because of Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Partnership2Gether (P2G) program with the Yokneam-Megiddo, some young Israelis have...
Sep 22, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Our family has a tradition of constructing rather unconventional sukkot each year. Under my wife’s guidance, we put up sheets, or make other provisions to construct what I like to call a “house outside of our home.” Truth be told, it’s not...
Sep 4, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Rosh HaShana starts this evening celebrating the birthday of the world. Science aside for the moment, the poetry of the holiday inspires questions. Like this one: if the world was created out of nothing, what was here before? Our mystical tradition teaches that...
Sep 3, 2013 | Miscellaneous
When all 165 students at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School recently gathered to welcome visitors with song, the school’s head, Cheryl Maayan, was filled with hope about how vibrant and beautiful the Jewish future could be. “We’re a pluralistic school, but we’re...
Aug 30, 2013 | Miscellaneous
As of late Friday afternoon, news outlets are reporting that the US is preparing to strike Syria as a response to its use of chemical weapons. A strike on Syria may lead to a counter attack by Syria on the citizens of Northern Israel. The humanitarian fallout from...
Aug 25, 2013 | Miscellaneous
Last Thursday night our Ben Gurion Society (BGS) hosted its second annual Night at the Gallery at the Third Degree Glass Factory on Delmar in St. Louis City. We had a great crowd of young BGS’ers show up to hear about some of our work with the Ethiopian Jewish...
