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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 the center of much of the tension currently gripping Ukraine. Throughout the uncertainty...
Update on Conversion Legislation from JFNA
Please see below Leadership Briefing from JFNA (source): As many of you are aware, in recent weeks we have been closely monitoring a developing – and delicate – situation in Israel. Member of Knesset Elazar Stern (from Tzippy Livni’s Hatnua Party), has proposed a bill...
Jewish Community Study Launches
Data collected will help inform community planning, allocations and programming efforts for Jewish agencies and organizations for the next decade Visit JFedSTL.org/CountMeIn Jewish Federation of St. Louis, in conjunction with local synagogues and other Jewish...
Jewish Professionals Enjoy a Cool Night With the Blues
Jewish Federation of St. Louis held its third and final event of the 2013–14 UMB Event Series for members of its professional societies with a night of fun at a hockey game, “A Cool Night With the Blues,” on March 4 at the Scottrade Center. More than 50 members of the...
Young Couples to Sample Suds at YPD Date Night Event
Young Jewish couples are invited to join the Young Professionals Division (YPD) of Jewish Federation of St. Louis to get their beer fix before Passover at the third event in its Date Night Series. Couples of all types in their 20s and 30s—married, dating, LGBT,...
Women’s Philanthropy Holds “Shower” to Benefit the Community
Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of St. Louis will hold its sixth annual “Shower Our Community With Love” event on Thursday, April 24 at 7 pm at the Jewish Community Center Arts and Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. At the shower, Women’s...
Rubin Israel Experience Accepting Applications for No-Cost Israel Trip
Seventh year for the trip for 27- to 45-year-old St. Louisans who have never been to Israel Applications are now open for the seventh Rubin Israel Experience, an all-expense-paid trip for young adults who have never been to Israel. Ten spots are available for...
Federation Support and the Crisis in Ukraine
I share with you below this posting from the Board Chair and the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). Our Federation is a member of JFNA and the posting expresses well the value of coordinated support for our community, whether here in St. Louis,...
Final 2013 Federation Fundraising Totals Hit $19.68 million
2013 Annual Community Campaign raises nearly $9.4 million with an increase in new gifts Jewish Federation of St. Louis raised $19,685,545 in 2013, $9,368,741 of which was raised in the unrestricted annual Community Campaign. An additional $1,791,279 was raised in...
Standing for Justice
A new exhibit opened Sunday, Feb. 9 in our Kopolow Building Atrium. “Standing for Justice II: 1950-1980: Documentation From the St. Louis Jewish Community Archives,” is a collaboration between the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC), the Saul Brodsky Jewish...