(JTA) — In a normal year, the Jewish Book Council’s annual conference is something of a variety show where hundreds of authors take to the podium with two minutes each to convey what makes their book special.The event is part of the council’s attempt...
Gilat Lavi and David Hoffman were married March 4, 2020 at Kibbutz Hulde in Israel. Rabbi Daniel Waltman officiated.
Gilat is the daughter of Estelle and Schachar Lavi of Karnei Shomron, Israel. She is the granddaughter of Eva and Victor Goldberg...
By Kate Robbins, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 17, 2020
With COVID-19 keeping us stuck inside this summer, a good book has become more important than ever. A book can transport you into another world without ever leaving the house, and the St. Louis Jewish community has lots of great books to recommend. From...
The nation is struggling with having to choose between bad options.I exchange emails with a group of childhood friends from Baltimore who are very liberal Democrats and share a hatred of President Donald Trump that goes beyond Trump Derangement Syndrome. They...
By Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 16, 2020
The Peacock spreads its wingsThe new Peacock network, an offshoot of NBC, premiered for wide audiences on July 15. Certain cable company customers were already getting Peacock with their subscription. Now everyone can see some of the shows (with ads)...
SILVER SPRING, Md. (JTA) — In 1948, after the Holocaust, the right to asylum was recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to ensure that never again would anyone be trapped in their country of persecution.On June 15 of this year, the...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Like many in the Jewish community, I was shocked to learn last week of the untimely death of Ilia Salita, CEO of the Genesis Philanthropy Group. A man with quiet energy, understated authority and ironclad integrity, Ilia’s loyalty...
BY CATE MARQUIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 9, 2020
The late, great Swiss actor Bruno Ganz plays Sigmund Freud in “The Tobacconist,” an imaginative, engrossing tale about a friendship between a teenage boy and Freud set in Vienna just before and during the Nazi invasion. This was one of the Ganz’s...
It was the 1980s. I was a teenager, and the spread of a different contagion threatened to overturn our way of life: genital herpes.Fear of this new sexually transmitted disease led social commentators to ponder whether a new age of chivalry awaited us...
There’s a reason why most Israelis find it difficult to listen patiently to lectures from liberal American Jews. For Israelis, their country is a real place filled with real people and perplexing dilemmas that have no easy solutions. But for all too...
NEW YORK (JTA) — At 4 a.m., Israeli rocker Aviv Gefen was still crying, head in hands, in the empty Haifa-area amphitheater where he had performed the previous late May evening. Staff members urged him to go home.In a televised interview days later,...
(JTA) — The trailer for “An American Pickle,” the upcoming movie in which Seth Rogen plays a 1920s Jewish immigrant who falls into a pickle vat and wakes up 100 years later, is finally here.We caught a first glance of Rogen looking the part in a...
