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College and St. Louis
This past week Hillel held its national conference at Washington University in St. Louis. It is the fourth year in a row that they have been on campus and this year the conference drew over 800 participants from around the world (click here to see an article about it...
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 Delmar Boulevard. Society members will hear from Julie Stern and Jodi Rubenstein, who took part in two...
Croughan To Head Jewish Federation Board
Patricia Flance Croughan has been nominated as chair of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, to succeed current chair Bob Millstone. She will be formally nominated and presented for election at Federation’s Annual Meeting and Installation of Officers, Tuesday, September...
“Swastika Rehabilitation Day”
Last week Karen Areosty, regional director of the ADL, sent out an official bulletin alerting the community to the celebration of "Swastika Rehabilitation Day." (See their blog here) The celebration is being coordinated by a group interested in rehabilitating the...
Web Developer/Graphic Designer
Web Developer/Graphic Designer Seeking a creative, collaborative person to join our Marketing team as a Designer with front end developer skills. Jewish Federation of St. Louis mobilizes the Jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and...
Find Your Voice
Every year Federation closes up to clean the office. We throw out files, and the smell of cleaning chemicals infuses the air. Of course we should be doing this at Pesach, but who has time at Pesach with the crush of the holiday! So in mid-July the recycling bins...
Women’s Philanthropy Presents Programming Series
Women’s Philanthropy of Jewish Federation of St. Louis will present three special events in 2013 and 2014 as part of the Women’s Philanthropy Programming Series. Intended to inspire, educate and enlighten participants, the events include: “Renewing Yourself for the...
Pluralism in Israel
Many in our community have been concerned by the recent tensions surrounding equality of access to the Western Wall for women. Indeed many of the confrontations have been ugly. JFNA (Jewish Federations of North America) has been working quietly to achieve a political...
Senior Services: To Jews as Jews…and as Jews to All
One possible result of a demographic study is the discovery that we have a large number of what I have called "orphaned seniors:" members of our community whose children live outside of St. Louis and thus who do not benefit from the informal social support that...
Just how many Jews are there in St. Louis?!
If you've lived in St. Louis anytime over the last 20 years you probably "know" that our population is 60,000 people. Actually we do not really know that: the estimate was based on a study begun 20 years ago and a good deal has changed in the region since then....