Filled with energy-friendly features such as water-retaining xeriscaping, high-performance fluorescent lighting and thermal equalizers in the gym, the Staenberg Family Complex was a model of efficiency. Though the complex’s footprint was smal…

The year 2019 will be remembered as one that saw top leaders in the St. Louis Jewish community come and go, as well as new Jewish organizations take shape and existing ones merge and/or change venues. A new Covenant Place senior housing compl…

St. Charles County represents nearly 10 percent of all Jews living in the St. Louis region, but it has no full-time rabbi. That is about to change. On the first night of Hannukah, the Chabad of Greater St. Louis announced a new fifth chapter …

The 13th annual St. Louis Jewish Community Blood Drive at Young Israel synagogue will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12. In conjunction with the blood drive, there will be a drive to benefit the Harvey Korblum Jewish Food Pant…

The Kol Rinah Men’s Club will welcome St. Louis sports broadcaster Ron Jacober to its annual sports dinner at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19. 

Central Reform Congregation’s Mitzvah Farm and Orchard received the 2019 Irving J. Fain Social Justice Award at the Union of Reform Judaism Biennial in Chicago on Dec. 12.  CRC was one of 21 congregations across the country recognized this ye…

St. Louis’ Reform congregations are planning a “Winter Warm Up” event from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12 at the Maryland Heights Center for all current and potential campers, grades 3-12. 

Alice, a member of a local Conservative synagogue, wanted to find the source of severe pain and numbness in her left arm.

The St. Louis Holocaust Survivors and Descendants Group will hold a Hanukkah party from noon to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22 at Jewish Federation’s Kaplan Feldman Complex, 12 Millstone Campus Drive. The luncheon event will include music and game…

Chabad of Greater St. Louis has several events planned in the St. Louis area on the first night of Hanukkah, Sunday Dec. 22. The events, which are free, are:

Chabad of Greater St. Louis will be partnering with Home Depot to offer a pre-Hanukkah Menorah Workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15 at the Home Depot, 1603 S. Hanley Road. 

Nine years after a small group of Jews and Muslims first gathered on Christmas Day to work side-by-side in community service, the annual interfaith effort returns in 2019 with a renewed focus on the popular program’s core mission: building st…

Longtime museum executive Sandra Harris has been named as the new Executive Director for the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center (HMLC). Harris, who will start Jan. 13, 2020, comes aboard as the HMLC celebrates its 25th year.

Gateway Transportation Center and the National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis (NCJWSTL) have partnered to install human trafficking posters in an effort to create awareness and stop human trafficking. Located in downtown St. Louis, the Gat…

Hanukkah storytelling, STEAM activities for children and a singing presentation will be featured at the 26th annual Hanukkah Celebration to be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 at Schnucks Ladue Crossing shopping center, I-170 at Ladue…

It’s the busy season for Irwin Loiterstein. He has to schedule  deliveries, calm anxious customers and extract countless pine needles from every fiber of his clothing. 

Before retiring last year, Burton Wice was an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at Washington University School of Medicine. During his career, he published more than 40 research papers in the fields of obesity,…

The Creve Coeur City Council moved unanimously Monday night to draft an ordinance that would change the name of Beirne Park to the H. Philip Venable Memorial Park. The proposed change comes in response to local activists’ efforts to bring att…