It’s been 60 years since The Riddler started causing headaches for Gotham City on primetime TV. On Jan. 12, 1966, “Batman” arrived in American homes in living color as a half-hour series. The episode, “Hi Diddle Riddle,” introduced...

  For the past four years, the Jewish Light has covered the Jewish Community Center’s  biannual used book sales with one question in mind: how to navigate the tables and come out winning. But quietly, year after year, readers have been...

  Designer, author and television personality Nate Berkus is marking a milestone this year — the 30th anniversary of his design firm — and he’s celebrating it in part with a new book, “Foundations,” that he’ll discuss at the St....

It’s the season book lovers have been waiting for: the annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival is back, Nov. 2–9, for a week’s worth of author, pre- and post-fest events. And this year, the festival begins a year-round Speakers Series. “This year’s...

Going to a campus literary event isn’t usually high on my social calendar, and maybe not on yours, either. But when I heard about this one, I thought it was worth sharing, and here’s why. I’ve always been drawn to generational stories like...

  It’s not every day a St. Louis scholar makes national headlines in the world of history. But this week, Washington University’s Jonathan Judaken joined the ranks of the American Historical Association’s top honorees, receiving the...

When Clare Kinberg discovered her estranged Aunt Rose’s death certificate in 2016, she unlocked a family story that had been hidden for generations. That discovery became “By the Waters of Paradise: An American Story of Racism and Rupture in a...

Eli Sharabi spent 491 days in Hamas captivity, surviving the tunnels of Gaza only to return home to devastating news: his wife and daughters had been murdered on Oct. 7. His story of survival, grief and faith has already broken publishing records in...

When Jennifer Stempel sat down to write her new children’s book, she was searching for light in a dark time. “I wrote the story for this book shortly after Oct. 7, and took great comfort in working on a story about Jewish joy and continuity, at...

For anyone who’s ever lingered over the smell of old paper, hunted for a first edition or admired the detail in a centuries-old map, the world of rare books in St. Louis is about to get bigger. Fine Book Fairs, a Jewish-owned company founded in 2022...

One afternoon while digging through the Jewish Light archives, I stumbled upon a name I didn’t recognize—Moses Mendelssohn—in a full-page story spread from 1979. What grabbed me wasn’t the name at first, but the opening line by columnist H.H....

Robert Colton’s book, “The Mitzvah of Repentance,” was recently released. It is about a prominent St. Louis family who feel themselves obligated to take in a Holocaust survivor shortly after World War II. Upon the refugee’s arrival, her...