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,...
By Seth Rogovoy, The Forward
• Published November 10, 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By Bono
Knopf, 577 pages, $34
Bono would like you to know who he sat with over the years.
“I am sitting on Harry Belafonte’s bed.”
“We’re sitting with Rupert Murdoch …”
“I was sitting in Renards...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 10, 2022
“Bibi: My Story” by Benjamin Netanyahu, Simon & Schuster, 724 pages, $35
Mark Twain’s famous response to the premature publication of his obituary — “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” accurately describes the political...
“The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive” is a methodically researched and harrowing book about Otto von Wachter, a high-ranking SS member and one-time governor of Krakow.
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2022
After two years as a virtual event, the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival returns to an in-person format this year. The festival, set for Nov. 6-13, will feature authors and panel discussions on wide-ranging subjects, from cooking to true crime, history...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2022
The desire to own fewer things in our lives can be seen with the current decline in luxury spending or spending in general, and the cult success of listening to the decluttering superstar author Marie Kondo.
Whether we buy fewer possessions or just...
(JTA) – The acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy is known for his haunting, apocalyptic depictions of the American South and West. But in his new books, McCarthy is exploring different soil: the American Jewish experience.
A pair of new McCarthy novels,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 26, 2022
What was so special about Helen Rosenthal’s matzoh ball soup?
“Nothing,” her son Phil says.
In the second season of “Somebody Feed Phil,” Rosenthal’s Netflix show, he featured the dish in the New York City episode. In an interview from...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2022
In the early 1980s, older adults had far fewer resources. Community centers offered basics such as a hot lunch, simple crafts and bingo. It’s a much different world now, thanks in large part to Oasis, a national network that began 40 years ago in St....
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 24, 2022
(JTA) — As images of the banner held above Interstate 405 in Los Angeles claiming “Kanye is right about the Jews” ricocheted around the internet this weekend, Jessica Seinfeld decided to take a stand.
A cookbook author and wife of comedian Jerry...
