Louis Raskas Of St. Louis

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine
(This article first appeared in The Jewish Press, February 1, 2007. Posted here by permission of the author)
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s America was called the treifa medina by many religious Jews living in Eastern Europe. This was based on the fact that the religious observance of many of the [...]

An Irish Jew?

I have had a rather unique upbringing.  My mother was raised Catholic, was married and divorced, then converted to Judaism, and finally decided she wanted to have children.  She was artificially inseminated to have me, her now 22 year old daughter.  It has been just my mom and I in my immediate family for my [...]