Page 3 - Congregation Shaare Emeth News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

\

Philip Deitch A traveling exhibit created by Moms Demand Action's 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, the weapon was a gun. As for McCaw, her husband was speaking to his sister outside their mother’s h...

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…