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...
Newsmakers is a compilation of local Jews’ newsworthy professional and academic accomplishments. Submit your news items to [email protected] Call 314-743-3669 for more information. Published the first edition of each month. Attorney Susan E....
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
(JTA) — The first trailer is out for “Esau,” a new movie loosely based on a biblical sibling rivalry that was filmed in Israel and boasts an all-star cast of Jewish actors.“Esau,” a drama based on the novel by the same name by Israeli author...
Disclosure: Since my childhood I have been a rabid fan of comic books. At one time, I owned about 1,200 of them, arranged in neat stacks on the windowsills of my room in our Delmar Loop apartment.With this background, I eagerly asked to review the new...
Freedom of speech is no laughing matter – except in the hands of comedian and author Judy Gold. She analyzes threats to the First Amendment of the Constitution from the perspective of a stand-up comic. The book makes the case that PC police and “cancel...
“On Friday morning I have on one ear a conference call and one hand mixing cholent, and with my foot I’m rocking the baby carriage,” says Ola Sergatchov. “That’s what my life looks like.”Vice president of corporate strategy at Israeli data...
Atop a soaring Tel Aviv skyscraper, an orchestra of Jewish, Muslim, Druze and Christian musicians from across Israel performed the Emirati song “Ahebak” (“I Love You”) in tribute to the historic Israel-UAE peace treaty.Posted on September 15...
