Omer Friedlander is the winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Jewish Fiction Award for his short story collection The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, published by Random House.
The award includes a $1,000 cash prize and an invitation...
Savoy Curry, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 22, 2023
This story first appeared on the Jewish Women’s Archive Blog and is republished here with permission.
Living in Europe for the past few months, I’ve been struck by the similarities between traditional Jewish and European dishes. I was vaguely...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 22, 2023
There is something quite wonderful about walking into a bookstore, engaging with all the possibilities in front of you, eventually making a choice and coming home with a brand-new book. But there is something also wonderful about picking up a used book,...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 22, 2023
(JTA) — Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly one-sided.
“I went on this nerdy presidential classroom thing when I was in high school,” he...
Nora Berman, Deputy Opinion Editor at The Forward
• Published January 18, 2023
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What it means to be an American Jew has long centered on two things: support for Israel and remembering the Holocaust.
But...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published January 18, 2023
(JTA) — “Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about his career fusing Jewish and African-American culinary histories, was named the Jewish book of 2022 by the Jewish Book Council.
Subtitled “The Faith and Food Journey of an African...
Sarah Jae Leiber, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 10, 2023
Jewish writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s television adaptation of her bestselling novel, Fleishman is in Trouble, ended last week on a triumphant note. There was a marriage proposal, a strange bat mitzvah, and a successfully performed dance class routine—some...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published December 15, 2022
It’s no secret that St. Louis is and has always been a great sports city. For more than a century the Gateway City has been a hotbed of professional and amateur sports with a diverse history and an evolving legacy of success.
In "St. Louis Sports...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published December 15, 2022
Hanukkah storytelling returned to the Schnucks Ladue Crossing shopping center on Dec. 14 after a two-year COVID hiatus.
A large gathering heard the Hanukkah story and songs from Rabbi Schmuel Miller, head of school at H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy, with...
By Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 13, 2022
The animated film “Diary of a Whimpy Kid: Roderick Rules” began streaming on Dec. 2. ED ASNER, who died in 2021 at age 91, has a starring (voice) role. Asner, a Kansas City native, loved to work and at the time of his death he had completed 10 TV...
BY ELLEN HARRIS, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published December 12, 2022
Is there anything better on chilly, dark winter days than cozying up with a mug of steaming hot chocolate and a good book?
The Jewish authors of these five memoirs are introspective and candid. Two tell of guilt and shame. Two take us along their journeys...
PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published December 8, 2022
Gazing off with determination, or even a glimmer of hope on the cover, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, along with the “Spirit of Ukraine,” is the Time Person of the Year, joining an exclusive list of notable people and an even shorter list of Jews. Throughout...
