Louis S. Goldman

Louis Goldman was born Israel Labe Guntmacher in 1894 in Ladyzhin, Podolsky, Ukraine. The Ukraine is about the size of Texas and Ladyzhin was a small village then with about 800 Jewish families. My father-in-law said it looked just like village, Anatevka, in Fiddler on the Roof. They spoke Russian, Ukrainian and Yiddish. In the [...]

Harry Sabol

The story of Harry Sabol, as told by his son Allen
Harry was born in Russia and came to the United States in 1904 after escaping from the Czar’s army. A tailor by trade, Harry set up shop in St. Louis at 321 North Jefferson Ave. with a sign, “Who Does Your Tailoring? Try Harry Sable.”
He [...]

Hilda Lebedun: Part III

Story was recorded at the Covenant House on May 20, 2008, by Michael Naclerio.
On May first, we got to the German border and were told to disembark. We were guarded by two of them, and they were reading a newspaper. I peaked over their shoulders and was reading it, and in big black letters was: [...]

Jerry Baum

Story was recorded at the Covenant House on May 20, 2008, by Michael Naclerio.
I grew up in St. Louis, and my father was one of the men who built Beth Israel.  He also helped bring in Rabbi Eichenstein, the Head Rabbi of St. Louis at that time. We had a fight, the Rabbi and I. [...]

Torah Study Lesson

Just How Directly Responsible Am I For Cleaning Up The Evil Around Me?
By: Michele Long
In today’s Torah Study we were discussing how we don’t have to go looking for the evil around us when Suzanne brought up the question: “What level of evil are we responsible for?” She sited a man who went to prison [...]