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Jewish Federations Express Sympathy Following Shooting at Brussels Jewish Museum
News reports suggest that a gunman opened fire on a crowd entering the Brussels Jewish Museum, killing at least three people and injuring one. Below is a statement from Chair…
Remembering the Past & Moving Forward
Earlier this month we celebrated the liberation of our people from the bondage of slavery. During this period with events that unfolded in Kansas City and continue to unfold in…
Flyer Calling for Donetsk Jews to ‘Register’ Declared Fake
You may have heard about a flyer circulated in Donetsk, Ukraine requiring Jews to “register with the Nationalities Commissioner and pay $50 or lose their citizenship and face deportation.” The…
Purim in Simferopol: Delivering Mischloach Manot and “JDC DNA”
Married for more than 60 years, Gregory and Asia Shur share their life together in a fourth-floor walkup in Simferopol, the Crimean capital of 330,000 people that has been at…
General Assembly Recap
Our mission returned last Friday from a whirlwind of the JFNA General Assembly and our own community trip. I had promised to update the blog but got very sick during…
Federation’s Ben Gurion Society Holds Night at the Gallery
The Ben Gurion Society of Jewish Federation of St. Louis held its second annual Night at the Gallery on August 22, with more than 50 Federation leaders and donors in…
Monitoring the Syrian Crisis
As of late Friday afternoon, news outlets are reporting that the US is preparing to strike Syria as a response to its use of chemical weapons. A strike on Syria…
Glass Blowing and Ethiopian Immigrants
Last Thursday night our Ben Gurion Society (BGS) hosted its second annual Night at the Gallery at the Third Degree Glass Factory on Delmar in St. Louis City. We had a…
Federation’s Ben Gurion Society Presents a Night at the Gallery
The Ben Gurion Society of Jewish Federation of St. Louis will host the second annual Night at the Gallery, August 22 at 7:30 pm at Third Degree Glass Factory, 5200…
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…