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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...
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 may lead to a counter attack by Syria on the citizens of Northern Israel. The humanitarian fallout from...
Dr. Dalia Fadila – Bio
Dr. Dalia Fadila is currently provost of Al-Qasemi Academy, an Arab college of education in Israel . She has acted as the president of the college during 2006. She is also a fellow member of the "EU Leadership Program," and "USA International Leadership Program"....
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 great crowd of young BGS’ers show up to hear about some of our work with the Ethiopian Jewish...