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...
By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published December 7, 2022
Walk into any bookstore and you will be astonished by how much space is dedicated to cookbooks. Likewise, check out a library near you. The stacks are overflowing with cookbooks. It is wonderful and can be overwhelming.
So, what makes a good cookbook...
(JNS) “Today, Theodor Herzl is best known for his beard, not his books,” laments Gil Troy, editor of “The Zionist Writings of Theodor Herzl,” in his introductory essay to a new edition of Herzl’s diaries.
Troy, a professor of history at Canada’s...
(JTA) – At one point in John Boyne’s new novel “All The Broken Places,” a 91-year-old German woman recalls, for the first time, her encounter with a young Jewish boy in the Auschwitz death camp 80 years prior.
“I found him in the warehouse...
(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series.
“Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 17, 2022
The Anti-Defamation League, Heartland, which provides services to Southern Illinois, Missouri, and Eastern Kansas is partnering with the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis in response to some St. Louis area schools banning several Holocaust books,...
(JTA) – Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” along with six books about the Holocaust geared toward young readers, are among the hundreds of books that a handful of school districts in Missouri have reportedly removed from their shelves since the start of...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 14, 2022
Much of Mike Pence’s forthcoming memoir focuses on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s rift with him over certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. In “So Help Me God,” set for release on Tuesday,...
