Sophie Bernstein
Sisters Simone, 29, and Sophie Bernstein, 21, along with brother, Jake, 27, grew up in Clayton attending Congregation Shaare Emeth. For more than a decade, the siblings have been at the helm of some cool, innovative projects. Simone and Jake, for instance, founded VolunTEEN Nation in 2009, a nonprofit that links teens and tweens to organizations seeking volunteers. Three years later, they took the organization national.
At age 15, Sophie created Go Healthy St. Louis, which brings fresh, healthy produce from community gardens to area food banks. She was one of 15 teenagers nationwide to receive the 2015 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award, which is given to teens who make a positive influence in their community. Two years earlier, brother Jake won the same award for VolunTEEN Nation.
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A year ago, an ambulance hurried Mike Weinhaus from his home in Chesterfield to Missouri Baptist Hospital because he could barely breathe. As he was being wheeled toward the intensive care unit, he remembers stopping in front of the room where his wife, Jane, a preschool teacher at Temple Israel, lay quiet, fighting for her life. She had been placed on a ventilator a few days earlier after testing positive for COVID-19.
âAll I could think of was, how am I going to plan for the worst as sick as I am,â said Mike, 64, who also was experiencing severe symptoms having tested positive for the virus.
If the pandemic has shined a light on anything, it is the disparity of resources available to poor communities, especially when it comes to education. Poverty and illiteracy go hand-in-hand,
This Shabbat, we find ourselves celebrating the 7th Day of the Festival of Pesach and preparing for this weekâs special reading of the account of Kriat Yam Suf, the crossing of the Sea of Reeds, which tradition posits took place on this day. And yet, though we are knee-deep in our Passover c…