Category: Miscellaneous

“Swastika Rehabilitation Day”

Last week Karen Areosty, regional director of the ADL, sent out an official bulletin alerting the community to the celebration of “Swastika Rehabilitation Day.” (See their blog here) The celebration is being coordinated by a group interested in...

Web Developer/Graphic Designer

Web Developer/Graphic Designer Seeking a creative, collaborative person to join our Marketing team as a Designer with front end developer skills. Jewish Federation of St. Louis mobilizes the Jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and...

Find Your Voice

Every year Federation closes up to clean the office.  We throw out files, and the smell of cleaning chemicals infuses the air.  Of course we should be doing this at Pesach, but who has time at Pesach with the crush of the holiday!  So in mid-July the recycling bins...

Pluralism in Israel

Many in our community have been concerned by the recent tensions surrounding equality of access to the Western Wall for women. Indeed many of the confrontations have been ugly. JFNA (Jewish Federations of North America) has been working quietly to achieve a political...

Senior Services: To Jews as Jews…and as Jews to All

One possible result of a demographic study is the discovery that we have a large number of what I have called “orphaned seniors:” members of our community whose children live outside of St. Louis and thus who do not benefit from the informal social support...

Just how many Jews are there in St. Louis?!

If you’ve lived in St. Louis anytime over the last 20 years you probably “know” that our population is 60,000 people. Actually we do not really know that: the estimate was based on a study begun 20 years ago and a good deal has changed in the region...

Agency Accountant

Position: Agency Accountant Reports to: Director of Finance ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW The Jewish Federation of St. Louis mobilizes the Jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance Jewish life in St. Louis, Israel and around the world....

Accounting Manager

Position: Accounting Manager Reports to: Director of Finance ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW The Jewish Federation of St. Louis mobilizes the Jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance Jewish life in St. Louis, Israel and around the world....

Summer in the City for 18-22 Year Olds

Federation continues to provide young adults another point of access into the Jewish community with our innovative “Summer in the City” program developed by our Young Professional Division volunteers and directed by Lee’at Bachar, Federation...