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Philip Deitch A traveling exhibit created by Moms Demand Actions Missouri chapter uses T-shirts to embody the Missouri kids lost to gun homicides in 2020. For Leslie Washington and Tonya McCaw, the fight for increased gun restrictions is personal. Washington, a survivor of domestic violence, was threatened by her ex-husband with a firearm — one reason she fled St. Louis for Cape Girardeau, where she lives today. She also lost one relative to suicide and another to murder. In both cases, th...

The traveling memorial will be on display around St. Louis through the end of July.

What are you looking forward to when you retire from the rabbinate? That’s the question we posed to several St. Louis area rabbis. Here’s what they told us:

Having devoted fully half of my adult life to professional and lay leadership of the Anti-Defamation League’s work in our region, it is time for me to pursue other challenges in the arena of social and community justice. It is a departure laced with sadness as a lengthy chapter in my life en…

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…

Hillel at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU Hillel) is once again hosting Kosher for Passover lunches and dinners throughout the holiday. For St. Louis-area students, Hillel will offer free

A year ago, an ambulance hurried Mike Weinhaus from his home in Chesterfield to Missouri Baptist Hospital because he could barely breathe. As he was being wheeled toward the intensive care unit, he remembers stopping in front of the room where his wife, Jane, a preschool teacher at Temple Israel, lay quiet, fighting for her life. She had been placed on a ventilator a few days earlier after testing positive for COVID-19. “All I could think of was, how am I going to plan for the worst as sic...

Close Sophomore Simon Warner studies for AP World History. At the end of the school year, students will take a proctored advanced placement exam in certain subjects, hoping to get college credit for that course. By Ryan Silver Junior, Ladue Horton Watkins High School Feb 25, 2021

This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. The president of our synagogue called a few weeks ago to ask what it would take to reopen my little restaurant. Restaurants, of course, have been one of the industries most devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. ...