In the 1982 film, "My Favorite Year," the lead character, Bengie Stone, a Jewish comedy writer who worked on a fictional version of Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Show's" is on a date, and trying to explain to his non-Jewish date, that "Jews know three things,...
Jake Cohen, a Culinary Institute of America-trained chef, accomplished food writer and rockstar cookbook author is ready to share his secrets for his perfect Shavuot brunch.
Cohen will be hosting “Shavuot Cooking with Jake Cohen,” on Sunday, May...
CHICAGO (JTA) — Just three stories high and hemmed into a small 5,000-square-foot lot, the building at 16 S. Clark St. is a small jewel box situated amid this city’s dense urban fabric. Exuding an aura of cool simplicity, the structure’s facade...
(JTA) — Bernie Madoff, the fraudster who ran a $17.5 billion Ponzi scheme ensnaring thousands of investors, including a long list of Jewish organizations and families, has died at 82.
The Associated Press reported Madoff’s death Wednesday at...
(JTA) — A year after the filing of a federal civil rights complaint alleging an “unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment” at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the school is set to have a new dorm specifically for Jewish students.
Illini...
Robert (Bob) Bockserman, 90, passed away on November 5, 2020. Beloved husband of 63 years to Clarice (Cissy) Bockserman, father and father-in-law to Mike (Kathy) Bockserman, Joyce (Marty) Goldin and Carol (Dr. Kevin) Blinder; grandfather to Kimmy...
This year's St. Louis Jewish Film Festival takes place Nov. 9-15. View trailers for the festival's films below and read more of our coverage here. “Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles” "Crescendo""The Spy Behind Home Plate""Golda""Holy Silence"“Shared...
By Nancy Kranzberg, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 6, 2020
I’ve been worried about my artist friends and wondering how they are coping in these troubled times. So I decided to just pick up the phone — I’m old fashioned — and ask.The main question I asked was how they were dealing with the time on their...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 6, 2020
“Incitement,” director Yaron Zilberman’s gripping, fact-based political thriller, explores the life of a young Israeli man in the two years before he assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a rally in November 1995 celebrating the second...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 6, 2020
The Jewish Film Festival is a bit shorter this year, but it offers 12 outstanding dramas, documentaries and comedies from various countries. Some films have already appeared in St. Louis-area film festivals or theaters; others are local debuts. The annual...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 5, 2020
Think you missed this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival?
Actually, no, because the film fest that usually takes place in June will run Monday through Nov. 15, back-to-back with the Jewish Book Festival. And like the book festival, the film...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 5, 2020
The St. Louis International Film Festival, presented annually by Cinema St. Louis, runs from Thursday through Nov. 22, meaning it overlaps with both the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival (Nov. 1-8) and the Jewish Film Festival (Nov. 9-15). But because the...
