Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish. Synagogues and community organizations including The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute are active in St. Louis.
The first Jewish federation was founded in Boston in 1895 as Associated Jewish Philanthropies. [2] [3] Cincinnati formed its federation, United Jewish Social Agencies, the next year. Chicago founded its federation in 1900 followed by St. Louis. [3] Federations were soon formed in many other cities with large Jewish populations.
The St. Louis Holocaust Museum & Learning Center was founded in 1995, publicly opening on May 1, 1995. [2] It operated as a department of Jewish Federation of St. Louis. [3] [4] The museum's opening was dedicated to Gloria M. Goldstein, the wife of museum benefactor Samuel Goldstein. [2] [5] Samuel Goldstein would die five years later at the ...
At the time, there were approximately 600 to 700 Jewish people living in St. Louis, of which about 150 to 200 were members of United Hebrew Congregation. [7] In 1880, United Hebrew Congregation's moved the dead bodies buried at its original burial ground at Jefferson Avenue and Gratiot Street to a new cemetery at Mount Olive near Clayton. [10]
Atlanta, GA -- Jewish Interest Free Loan of Atlanta, Inc. Baltimore, MD-- Hebrew Free Loan Association of Baltimore; Boca Raton, FL-- Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service (Boca Raton) Boston, MA -- Jewish Family & Children Service; Buffalo, NY-- Hebrew Benevolent Loan Association (Buffalo) Cincinnati, OH -- Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
In 2012, Rehfeld was appointed the 12th President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, [10] [11] serving until 2019. He reoriented the institution toward a collaborative, community-development approach, [ 12 ] and successfully launched a campaign to rebuild the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum.
The St. Louis Jewish Light is a biweekly Jewish newspaper distributed in St. Louis, Missouri, that was established in 1947. [2] [3] It is located at 6 Millstone Campus, St. Louis. [3] It is a constituent agency of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and has an independent board of directors. Laura K. Silver is President of the Light's Board of ...
She was an advocate for women and a co-founder of the Jewish Council Against Family Violence. She was also a community leader, serving as a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, the board and advisory committee of the St. Louis Jewish Light, and as a driving force behind the renovation of the community mikveh ...