Creative Entries Sought From Students for 15th Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest
The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC) is seeking entries for the 2018 Art and Writing Contest. The contest asks creative middle and high school students to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. This is the 15th year that the annual competition has been held in dedication to the memory of the…
Announcing the New Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC) Website!
A Note from Jean Cavender, Director of the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center: I would like to announce the newly launched Holocaust Museum & Learning Center’s (HMLC) website! You can now view the site at HMLC.org. I am so excited to share with you this new and improved platform where you can view our events…
Exhibit and Lecture Present History of St. Louis Jewish Anti-Tubercular Preventorium
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 Drive. Reception to follow; dietary laws observed. Tuberculosis was…
Jewish Federation of St. Louis Receives Grant from State of Missouri: Office of Homeland Security
Jewish Federation of St. Louis is honored to announce the organization has been selected to receive an award from the 2015 Nonprofit Security Grant Program through the Missouri Office of Homeland Security (OHS). This grant, funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), helps to protect Missouri’s communities by building the capacity to prevent, mitigate,…
Benefits for Holocaust Survivors from Poland
The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) wishes to inform Holocaust victims from Poland that they may be eligible to receive monthly payments of about $130 from the Polish government. A recent law enables eligible war veterans or victims of oppression to receive the payments outside of Poland. Eligibility is determined by Poland’s Office for War…
Women’s Philanthropy mission trip to Chicago
Women’s Philanthropy recently returned from a meaningful mission trip to Chicago filled with Jewish learning and bonding. Highlights of the trip included a tour of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on Holocaust Remembrance Day and hearing from David Prystowsky, former head of Chicago’s JCRC, about anti-Semitism in the world today and how Federation…
A Passover Message
Tomorrow evening, millions of Jews around the world will gather for Passover. Our tradition encourages us to imagine that we ourselves were once slaves in Egypt. The Haggadah helps us remember the story, evoking memories of those who are no longer here, those who shaped who we are and who we will yet be. These are…
St. Louis Yom HaShoah Commemoration April 19
“Liberation and Survival: Where do I go now?” will be the focus of Yom HaShoah commemoration on Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Holocaust Remembrance Day event will feature eyewitness accounts of the Shoah from survivors and witnesses. The program will also include a traditional candle-lighting service, Holocaust Torah procession, liturgical readings and prayers. Join the…
Jewish Community Seeks to Identify Holocaust Survivors to Receive Claims Conference Funds
The Jewish community is looking to identify if St. Louis has enough Holocaust survivors to determine if our community can become eligible to receive Claims Conference funds to help survivors in their elder years. This is the first step in establishing whether or not St. Louis can apply for Claims Conference status to receive these funds. Federation, in…
Bring Back Our Boys, Legacy Gathering & Federations Welcome New Israeli President-Elect
via JFNA (source) Federations Launch Virtual Letter to Families of Kidnapped Boys In response to the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by members of Hamas, JFNA delivered a letter of solidarity to Prime Minister Netanyahu and prepared a virtual letter of support for the affected families. More than 3,000 people have signed the virtual letter in its first two…