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Aug 21, 2024 | 
stljewishlight.org | Stacey Newman
The office has been cleaned out, campaign photos and signs stripped from the walls, and goodbye hugs given to college interns and staff. Just a few weeks ago, St. Louis Democratic primary voters chose a new candidate, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, to represent the 1st Congressional District in Washington. It was far from a “normal” primary campaign. Oct. 7 changed the world in ways we never saw coming.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
pentictonherald.ca | Stacey Newman
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
stljewishlight.org | Stacey Newman
Among all the other reasons one goes to Paris on holiday, I had one primary mission during my long-planned bucket-list trip there last month with my daughter. I was compelled to visit the Wall of Names at the Shoah Memorial, in the old Jewish quarter of Marais, to say a prayer in person for 11-year-old Rosi, murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
abc7.com | Andrew Paparella |Stacey Newman |Kieran McGirl |Ivan Pereira
Jessica Heeringa, a single mom working at an Exxon gas station in Norton Shores, Michigan, went missing in 2013. Among the few clues investigators found at the scene were a small drop of blood and reports of a mysterious silver van. In 2014, people driving along a Dalton Township, Michigan, road found the body of a woman with gunshot wounds to the back of her head. Shell casings were found by the side of the road along with the victim's belongings. The victim was later identified as Rebekah Bletsch.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Andrew Paparella |Stacey Newman |Kieran McGirl |Ivan Pereira
"20/20" looks at the investigation into Jeffrey Willis. ByAndrew Paparella, Stacey Newman , Kieran McGirl, and Ivan PereiraFebruary 2, 2024, 8:44 AMJessica Heeringa, a single mom working at an Exxon gas station in Norton Shores, Michigan, went missing in 2013. Among the few clues investigators found at the scene were a small drop of blood and reports of a mysterious silver van.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
stljewishlight.org | Jordan Palmer |Stacey Newman
For years, she has stared at me every time I walk down my hallway. Gustel, barely 14 years old, stands out among her nine sisters, which include my late husband’s Oma Sophie, in the one remaining family photo from Germany taken in 1910. Self-assured with long lustrous hair and a cocky posture signifying an eagerness to take on the world, Gustel’s gaze is hard to ignore. The first time I saw this huge portrait over a cousin’s fireplace, I was completely mesmerized by her. Then I learned her story.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
stljewishlight.org | Jordan Palmer |Stacey Newman
Viewpoints expressed in letters, commentaries, cartoons and other opinion pieces reflect those of the writer or artist, and not those of the Light.We welcome submissions of letters and commentaries to:Growing up, I had the requisite number of Barbie dolls. I was only 5 years old when Mattel debuted the iconic Barbie in 1959, and she was instrumental in most of my fights with my younger sister.
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May 24, 2023 | 
stljewishlight.org | Jordan Palmer |Stacey Newman
Exactly 23 years ago on Mother’s Day, I marched in the Million Mom March alongside numerous Jewish organizations in Washington, D.C. after my first-grade daughter went on national television talking about her fear of guns in her school. Nothing has changed. Gun violence is our accepted normal and no one is safe. Shootings happen every day, somewhere. But you know that. The Gun Violence Archive, the national entity tracking gun violence stats, reports we have had 232 mass shootings to date in 2023.
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Feb 24, 2023 | 
stljewishlight.org | Stacey Newman |Jordan Palmer
What would you do if your child’s life was threatened?If your child required specific healthcare in order to thrive, to survive? For most parents, the question is absurd.
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Jan 27, 2023 | 
stljewishlight.org | Stacey Newman |Jordan Palmer
Opinion By Stacey NewmanI’ll never forget a rabbi who testified before my House committee during the 2017 Extraordinary Emergency Session on Abortion called by then-Gov. Eric Greitens. Rabbi Jonah Zinn, wearing his yarmulke, sat directly in front of me and explained the Reform Jewish perspective of abortion according to the Torah, to my predominately evangelical Christian fellow committee members. I thought my colleagues’ heads were going to explode.
