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Sukkat Shalom!
Our family has a tradition of constructing rather unconventional sukkot each year. Under my wife's guidance, we put up sheets, or make other provisions to construct what I like to call a "house outside of our home." Truth be told, it's not really all the family that...
Federation’s Young Professionals Celebrate 2013 Campaign at Gateway Soiree
The Young Professionals Division (YPD) of Jewish Federation of St. Louis will celebrate the end of the 2013 Community Campaign and all things St. Louis at “Gateway Soiree,” Saturday, October 12, from 8 to 11 pm at the St. Louis Science Center. The party, one of the...
Jewish Federations Mobilize in Response to Historic Colorado Flooding
The Jewish Federations of North America are mobilizing to help the victims of unprecedented flooding across Colorado, which has swept through 15 counties, killing at least five and displacing thousands of people – and the Jewish community has not escaped the disaster....
Staenberg Family Foundation Launches New Grant Opportunity
Anything Grants will support projects, infrastructure and programs of local Jewish organizations The Staenberg Family Foundation, a supporting Foundation of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, announces a new grant opportunity aimed at helping agencies and programs...
United Way of Greater St. Louis announces $72,250,000 million campaign goal
United Way of Greater St. Louis’ 2013 Campaign Co-chairs Ron and Cheri Fromm officially announced United Way of Greater St. Louis’ 2013 fundraising campaign goal is $72,250,000 million. The campaign begins today, September 3 and ends early November. Ron Fromm is...
Thank you to the Carl and Fay Simons Fund…
The St. Louis NORC (an agency of Jewish Federation) is fortunate to have been supported periodically by the Carl and Fay Simons Endowment for Senior Services over the past 10 years and 2013 again finds us a beneficiary of their generosity and foresight. Overseen by...
Orr Shalom Says “Thank You” St. Louis
As part of Federation’s strategic priority to support vulnerable populations, we have been funding the Orr Shalom summer camp program in Israel. The camp serves hundreds of highly at-risk children and teens who are raised out of their homes by court order. Take a look...
Rosh HaShana: Creating the space for others to grow
Rosh HaShana starts this evening celebrating the birthday of the world. Science aside for the moment, the poetry of the holiday inspires questions. Like this one: if the world was created out of nothing, what was here before? Our mystical tradition teaches that...
Celebrating a Future of Diversity
When all 165 students at Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School recently gathered to welcome visitors with song, the school’s head, Cheryl Maayan, was filled with hope about how vibrant and beautiful the Jewish future could be. “We’re a pluralistic school, but we’re...
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 attendance at the Third Degree Glass Factory. The group heard from Julie Stern, a Federation board...