Category: Miscellaneous

Job Openings at Federation

Are you a dynamic, creative innovative individual, interested in working in a collaborative, vibrant workplace?  Do you want to work in support of helping others live lives of human dignity, meaning, and relevance?  Are you passionate about Jewish tradition and...

Kavod (honor) for Jane Roodman Weiss

JFNA’s Lion of Judah Magazine Summer issue contains an terrific profile of our own director, Jane Roodman Weiss and her sisters, recipients of the 2012 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland award recognizing their enduring impact in their home communities. Janie was...

Join us at the GA: Deadline August 1

We have a dynamic group interested in joining our community on a mission to the Jewish Federation of North America’s 2013 General Assembly in Jerusalem. Our mission will give participants a first hand exposure to the people and complexity of the contemporary...

Director of NEXTGen St. Louis

Director of NEXTGen St. Louis 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. We currently have a position open in our Planning &...

Next Gen Next Steps: An Update

In early June 2013 Federation hosted Miryam Rosenzweig, the Director of Next Gen initiatives at the Detroit Jewish Federation. Miryam met with a broad cross-section of the St. Louis Jewish community, including the Federation’s Board of Trustees, community leadership...

Remembering William “Bill” Kahn

William “Bill” Kahn will be remembered as one of the most respected, admired and loved members of our St. Louis Jewish Community. Head of the Jewish Community Center and Jewish Federation of St. Louis, he devoted more than four decades to Jewish communal...

Mission Tradition

Federation has had a long tradition of organizing missions to Israel that bring our community together and contribute to the Jewish depth of all who participate. Most, perhaps all of you have been on one or more missions and know they can sometimes be life changing;...

Jessica Berg

Jessica Berg started her involvement with philanthropy in high school, participating in charity runs, canned food drives and other activities at Parkway Central High. Then she got more involved during college at University of Missouri–Columbia, within the college and...

Understanding Israel

Israel was much greener and developed than Missouri Representative Rick Stream expected. “From news reports and other information, I tended to think of it as dry and barren, but it’s not,” says the chair of the Missouri House Budget Committee. “The Israelis are an...

The Circle of Life Slash Israel

What began over a week ago is coming to a close.  While we started the trip showing everyone how close Israelis lived to the border with Syria and Lebanon, we are finishing it up by showing them how regardless where in Israel you are, you are very close to Arab...