By Kayla Steinberg, Staff Writer
• Published July 11, 2019
Lucy Greenbaum was always told she should become a cantor. Before high school, music was just her side gig. She sang at open mics and coffeehouses, never taking her performances too seriously. But Greenbaum’s cantor urged her to participate in the...
By Kayla Steinberg, Staff Writer
• Published July 5, 2019
Singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas pours her heart into her songs, and it’s paid off. Silvas, 41, will open for nine-time Grammy award-winning singer and Missouri native Sheryl Crow and rock band Heart when they come to St. Louis on July 9. Silvas has...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published July 5, 2019
Last August, I received an email at the Jewish Light from Emily Deason. She wondered if I was the same Ellen Futterman who in the 1980s had written about her late uncle, Larry Deason, for the Post-Dispatch.Turns out I am.Larry died in 1985 at the age...
Mueriel and Stanford Carp were married on June 29, 1969. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 29, 2019 with family and friends at Congregation B’nai Amoona. Life-long residents of St. Louis, they are very fortunate to have their children...
(JTA) — The life story of iconic singer-songwriter Neil Diamond will be told on Broadway in a musical.The untitled project is still in its development stages, Deadline Hollywood reported.“I’ve always loved Broadway. The inspiration for many of...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 27, 2019
Morris “Moe” Berg was an amazing figure for any era: a major league baseball player, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School and a World War II spy who spoke at least 10 languages. Award-winning director Aviva Kempner tells the...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — “Our Boys,” a ten-part series about the events that led to the 2014 Gaza War, will be screened on HBO in August.The series was filmed in Israel and is a co-production of HBO and the Israeli production company Keshet International....
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published June 26, 2019
When Howard Levy, a harmonica and piano player, left Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in 1992, he was the only band member who was married with children, and he didn’t want to spend some 200 days a year on the road, he said.But there was another reason...
By Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published June 26, 2019
When Howard Levy, a harmonica and piano player, left Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in 1992, he was the only band member who was married with children, and he didn’t want to spend some 200 days a year on the road, he said.But there was another reason...
(JTA) — The other day, my Catholic mother-in-law again implored me, her sole Jewish daughter-in-law, to watch “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” The third season of the award-winning show is expected to air in a few months, so I dutifully resigned myself...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 25, 2019
For Beth Koritz, it came on very suddenly. “I went from being fine to being lifted out of the car by a security guard at the hospital within 48 hours. That was my wake up call,” said the native St. Louisan, now 56. “The first words out of my mouth...
(JTA) — “Raising pigs in Israel? Couldn’t you play golf like everyone else?”That’s a quote that doubles well as the concept behind the movie “Holy Lands,” which stars Hollywood veteran James Caan as a relatively secular American Jew turned...
