Category: JFed STL News

Summer in the City

IN ST. LOUIS FOR THE SUMMER? COLLEGE STUDENT OR RECENT GRAD (18-22)? We’ve got your guide to parties, volunteer opportunities, Shabbat dinners, and more! Join us for the summer of your life & become a part of everything that’s great about STL. Friday, June 13,...

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...

Federation Opens Nominations for Young Leadership Award

Grosberg Award recognizes volunteer leaders 40 years and younger in local Jewish community Jewish Federation of St. Louis is seeking nominations for the 2013 David N. and Roselin Grosberg Young Leadership Award. The annual award recognizes volunteer leaders in the...

Jewish Federation of St. Louis Opens Disability Survey

Anyone with a disability or who has a child with a disability is encouraged to share opinions on resources in the St. Louis Jewish community Jewish Federation of St. Louis has developed a survey to assess the disability resources in place in the St. Louis Jewish...

CAJE Teacher Xchange

Recently, art teacher Suzanne Burack put together a project for the kindergartners and first and second graders who were studying Jerusalem at Temple Emanuel. Although it was not the first time Burack had come up with such a project, it was the first time she didn’t...

Unclaimed Property Older Missourian Education Initiative

Carolyn Epstein was researching the cost of an emergency response system. “I’m getting older and I have a disabled son,” she says. “If I fall, he might not be able to get me help.” So the 75-year-old member of Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ Naturally Occurring...

Andrea Kass

Andrea Kass has been giving since she had her first paid job. “My family has always been involved in giving,” she says. “I felt good about being able to contribute myself, not just through my parents. It was significant to me.” It is also important to Kass, a student...

JProStl Presents Creativity Series

Tuesday, June 25, 1-2:30pm Federation Kopolow Building Programs cultivate the use of music, acting and art to enhance human resources skills “Creativity in the Workplace,” a new JProStl series for professionals who work in Jewish organizations throughout St. Louis,...