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Center for Jewish Learning Presents Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi David Jaffe

Aug 23, 2017 | JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Center for Jewish Learning and Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series present Community Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi David Jaffe for a series of events September 8-10, 2017. Rabbi David Jaffe is the Founder and Principal of Kirva Consulting, which helps individuals and...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Presents Vilna Remembered

May 4, 2017 | Brodsky Library, Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series presents “Vilna Remembered: Celebrate the City of Vilna with Musician Will Sol” on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00 pm. Vilna – known as “Jerusalem of Lithuania” – was an outstanding center of Jewish learning and culture before it was decimated...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Presents Zeev Ben-Shachar on April 30 in Partnership with the Jewish Student Union, Center for Jewish Learning and Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library

Apr 19, 2017 | JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Jewish Student Union (JSU), Center for Jewish Learning and the Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library present two programs with Zeev Ben-Shachar on Sunday, April 30, 2017 in partnership with Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series. The first, Jerusalem – United for 50...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Shares Important Events on April 26 and 27

Apr 13, 2017 | JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News

Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School, in partnership with Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series, presents Same Difference: Understanding Jewish Identity. Same Difference is a celebration of our Jewish identities – our mosaic of perspectives, ritual practices, cultures and...

PJ Library and Brodsky Library Collaborate to Create The Story Quest

Apr 5, 2017 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, PJ Library

Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library and PJ Library are working together to develop a Jewish Story Festival for the community, launching in May, intersecting with the St. Louis Storytelling Festival. This first event on May 4, 2017 will then kick-off a yearlong...

ADL Presents “We Need Each Other Now More Than Ever: A community conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League”

Mar 22, 2017 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series and the ADL are proud to present “We Need Each Other Now More Than Ever: A community conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.” The program will be moderated by Robert Cohn, St. Louis...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Presents the Annual Morris and Ann Lazaroff Lecture: L’Oud and the Abstract Truth

Mar 8, 2017 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series is proud to present the Annual Morris and Ann Lazaroff Lecture: L’Oud and the Abstract Truth featuring Rabbi James Stone Goodman and Rabbi Zach Fredman, the Epichorus. The afternoon of unique music and storytelling, drawing from riches of a deep Middle Eastern Jewish tradition, will take place on Sunday, March 26 from 2:00-4:00 pm at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis Kopolow Building.

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Rabbi Sharon Brous and Rabbi David Ingber

Feb 15, 2017 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Join Song Leader Boot Camp and the Center for Jewish Learning for a free community event and a panel discussion featuring Rabbi Sharon Brous and Rabbi David Ingber on Monday, February 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm at the Performing Arts Center at the J. The discussion will...

Exhibit and Lecture Present History of St. Louis Jewish Anti-Tubercular Preventorium

Feb 15, 2017 | Brodsky Library, Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News

The exhibit, Camp Fee Fee: The St. Louis Jewish Anti-Tubercular Preventorium, will open at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis on February 21, 2017. A special opening program led by Diane Everman will be held at 7:00 pm at the building, located at 12 Millstone Campus...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Rabbi Marc Rosenstein

Jan 23, 2017 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Join the Jewish Federation of St. Louis for the next event in the Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series on Tuesday January 31 at 7:30 pm with Rabbi Marc Rosenstein. Rabbi Marc Rosenstein will be presenting “Toward a Vision of a Jewish State.” What could an ideal Jewish state...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Rabbi Elie Kaunfer

Jan 4, 2017 | JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Miscellaneous, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Join Jewish Federation of St. Louis for two exciting events with Rabbi Elie Kaunfer as part of the Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series in January 2017. On Wednesday, January 25 at 7:30 pm, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer will be present Beyond Identity and Pluralism: A 21st Century...

St. Louis Public Library Welcomes Josh Aronson

Dec 22, 2016 | JFed Press Releases, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

St. Louis Public Library welcomes writer, producer, director and author Josh Aronson to discuss “Orchestra of Exiles: The Story of Bronislaw Huberman, the Israel Philharmonic, and the One Thousand Jews He Saved from Nazi Horrors.” The program will take place...

Farm to Table Vilna Experience

Dec 14, 2016 | Brodsky Library, Center for Jewish Learning, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

Join the Jewish Federation of St. Louis for a special Farm to Table Vilna Experience, centered around The Vilna Vegetarian Cookbook by Fania Lewando, proprietor of a popular vegetarian restaurant in Vilna, Lithuania. Originally published in Yiddish in 1938, Lewando’s...

Full STEAM Ahead to the Brodsky Summer Reading Club

Jun 1, 2016 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News

Join the Brodsky Summer Reading Club for “Full STEAM Ahead: Where STEAM* and Literacy Come Together,” an educational summer program for kids entering pre-K through 5th grade. At the first event on Thursday, June 16, kids will construct their own catapult, build a...

“LeChaim!” Celebrating the 100th yahrzeit* of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem

Apr 27, 2016 | Brodsky Library, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center

We joyously honor the memory of Sholem Aleichem on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 1:00 pm in the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center theater in the Jewish Federation of St. Louis Kopolow building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive, 63146. Sholem Aleichem was the pen name of...

Photography Exhibit, The 36 Unknown, to Open at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis

Mar 11, 2016 | Brodsky Library, Center for Jewish Learning, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

An exhibit of photographs by Todd Weinstein entitled “Legends of the 36 Unknown” will open on Sunday, April 3, 2016 from 2:00-4:00 pm at the Jewish Federation of St. Louis Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive, 63146. The opening event will include remarks by...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Avi Melamed

Mar 9, 2016 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Join Jewish Federation of St. Louis for the next event in the Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00 pm with Avi Melamed. Avi Melamed will be exploring “GPS: Navigating the Middle East in the 21st Century.” In the second decade of the 21st Century,...

Liberation of Concentration Camps to be Subject of HMLC Presentation and Book Signing

Feb 10, 2016 | Brodsky Library, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

“Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945” is the focus of a presentation and book signing with author Dr. John C. McManus. The program will be held at the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, 12 Millstone...

Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series Welcomes Dr. Joshua Holo

Jan 13, 2016 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Join Jewish Federation of St. Louis for the next event in the Sh’ma: Listen! Speaker Series on Wednesday, February 3 at 7:00 pm with Dr. Joshua Holo. Dr. Joshua Holo will be exploring the Golden Age of Jewish Spain in a lecture, “What’s So Golden?” We’ve all heard...

New Courses at Center for Jewish Learning and UMSL

Jan 6, 2016 | Adult Education Classes, Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

Jewish Federation of St. Louis’ new Center for Jewish Learning is excited to offer several winter courses beginning this January. Browsing the Bible: Biblical Books We Don’t Often Study with Rabbi Lane Steinger, Tuesday mornings 10:30-11:30 am, 6 sessions beginning...

What can you do with your IRA Rollover?

Dec 23, 2015 | Brodsky Library, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

Good news just in time for the New Year. Congress has reauthorized the IRA Charitable Rollover for 2015. This means you still have time to contribute directly from your Traditional or Roth IRA to an eligible charity and receive the tax benefits of this charitable...

Overview of 2015

Dec 21, 2015 | Community Conversations

As 2015 comes to an end, I write to provide an overview of some of the key accomplishments of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis this year. The support of thousands in our community has helped us achieve some significant milestones this year. Community Study Jewish...

Teacher Xchange Photos

Apr 21, 2015 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

The Teacher Exchange program is sponsored and coordinated by CAJE and funded through a grant from Jewish Federation of St. Louis.

Maxine Weil recently returned from a very special mission

Mar 4, 2015 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

Maxine Weil, Senior Educational Program Director for Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) recently returned from a 10 day trip in Israel on a very special mission. However, the idea for her trip began last year when Dr. Dalia Fadila, Founder of Q Schools and...

Eileen is involved in the St. Louis Inclusion Initiative for her daughter, Stephanie

Feb 17, 2015 | Center for Jewish Learning, Inclusion Initiative, JFed STL News

Stephanie was born on May 26, 1973 with down syndrome. From the time she was in school, she has always been included in the St. Louis Jewish community. She attended a CAJE Sunday School program at Congregation Shaare Emeth for many years. As a member of Shaare Emeth,...

SH’MA: Listen! Speaker Series Israel Edition with Gershom Gorenberg

Jan 28, 2015 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News, Sh'ma: Listen! Speaker Series

Jewish Federation of St. Louis and Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library Present the Next SH’MA: Listen! Speaker Series Israel Edition with Gershom Gorenberg Israel is unique among the baby boom of new countries that gained independence after World War II. It...

Executive Director of Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library Retiring

Nov 20, 2014 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News

After 30 years at the helm of the Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, Executive Director, Barbara Raznick is retiring; effective May 8, 2015. This position has been a labor of love and devotion to Jewish Federation of St. Louis and the community for Ms. Raznick all...

Ed Reggi

Oct 14, 2014 | Center for Jewish Learning, Israel Center, JFed STL News

My husband Scott Emanuel and I were fortunate to join Federation’s 2014 Interfaith Couples Trip to Israel. This was not my first time in Israel but it was the first time for Scott. From my first shehecheyanu in Israel, I had always wanted to return with my...

Score a Touchdown this Season at Federation’s Annual 4th Quarter Huddle Community Phone-a-thon

Oct 8, 2014 | Brodsky Library, JFed STL News

Jewish Federation of St. Louis is inviting the community to attend a “4th Quarter Huddle” Phone-a-thon to close out the 2014 Annual Campaign. On Sunday, November 2, volunteers will gather at the Brodsky Library, 12 Millstone Campus from 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm. Come for an...

Jewish Federation Offers Interfaith Couples Mission to Israel

Sep 3, 2014 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

Building on the success of the 2014 Interfaith mission, Jewish Federation of St. Louis is excited to offer a unique opportunity for Jewish community members and their spouses or partners who identify as an interfaith couple to experience Israel as part of a special...

Exploring Integration

Apr 30, 2014 | Community Conversations

We recently embarked on the start of a formal process exploring the integration of Central Agency for Jewish Education (CAJE) with Federation. I wanted to share additional coverage of this development in this week’s Jewish Light, including an op-ed by me explaining...

New Exhibit on Discrimination and Anti-Semitism in St. Louis

Jan 8, 2014 | Brodsky Library, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

“Standing for Justice II: 1950-1980” illustrates the community’s response to discrimination, extremism and anti-Semitism as well as its involvement in issues of civil rights A new exhibit, “Standing for Justice II: 1950-1980: Documentation From the St. Louis Jewish...

CAJE Teacher Xchange

Jun 5, 2013 | Center for Jewish Learning, Israel Center, JFed STL News

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...

Making Connections in a Vibrant Community

Apr 24, 2013 | Center for Jewish Learning, Concierge for Families with Young Children, JFed STL News

April Levison thinks the St. Louis Jewish community is a wonderful place to raise her children. “It’s like an extended family,” says the mom of 5-year-old twins Cole and David and 2-year-old Spencer. With three active boys, it helps that there are a lot of activities...

Peggy Kaplan

Feb 25, 2013 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

When Peggy Kaplan moved to St. Louis from Southern California, she initially wasn’t very involved in the Jewish community. “I didn’t have a lot of Jewish friends when we moved here,” she says. Her initial contact with Jewish Federation of St. Louis was a women’s...

Nicki Kruger

Dec 30, 2012 | Center for Jewish Learning, Concierge for Families with Young Children, JFed STL News

When Nicki Kruger, 45, and her husband moved to St. Louis from Iowa, she didn’t know a soul. With three young children, Gabi, 10, Benjamin, 6, and Shauni, 4, Nicki knew it would be important to find a community that her family could join. And she wanted that community...

Holocaust Museum Opens Powerful Exhibit on Discrimination & Anti-Semitism In St. Louis From 1930 through 1940

Nov 28, 2012 | Brodsky Library, Holocaust Museum & Learning Center, JFed STL News

“Standing for Justice” illustrates the St. Louis Jewish community’s response based on information from the Saul Brodsky Library Archives The St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) will open a new exhibition, “Standing for Justice 1930-1950:...

CAJE & Jewish Federation Offer Needs-Blind Grants for Camp Through Partnership with Foundation for Jewish Camp

Nov 5, 2012 | Center for Jewish Learning, JFed STL News

$1,000 Available for First Time Campers through One Happy Camper Program The challenge of passing along Jewish connection and commitment to the next generation has become one of the most important concerns of the American Jewish community. Based on CAMP WORKS, a study...

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