The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis (TWStL) returns for its seventh year, giving center stage to a newly reimagined and sensual Fellini-esque production of William’s romantic Sicilian love story The Rose Tattoo, directed by David Kaplan and performed...
(JTA) — The 1981 winner of Peru’s competition of Israel’s International Bible Contest did not come from among the country’s many devoted Christians nor from Lima’s elite Jewish school.
Instead, the top prize went to Victor Chico, a self-taught...
(JTA) – Melissa Bank, whose stories of flawed, funny Jewish heroines searching for love and fulfillment won over readers’ hearts around the world, died Tuesday at age 61 of lung cancer.
Bank’s publisher, Penguin, confirmed her death in a statement....
By Curt Schleier, The Forward
• Published August 2, 2022
Actress Selma Blair’s new autobiography, “Mean Baby” is a brutally honest, sometimes perplexing, account of a difficult life that included a strong Jewish upbringing.
Born in Southfield, Michigan, to a Christian mother and Jewish father, Blair...
Jacob Henry, New York Jewish Week
• Published August 2, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) — Daniel Kalban is a 35-year-old law firm assistant who lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn. But when he’s not working his day job, he moonlights as a comic book writer, in a sort of double-life scenario that’s reminiscent of the...
BERLIN (JTA) — The German research institute that published an annotated scholarly version of “Mein Kampf,” which sold tens of thousands of copies and drew criticism from Jewish leaders on its release in 2016, has put a free and searchable version...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will be the keynote author kicking off the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Book Festival. The Jewish Community Center will host the 44th annual book festival from Nov. 6-13.
At 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, Yovanovitch...
Madadh Richey, Brandeis University
• Published July 15, 2022
What is a “monster”? For most Americans, this word sparks images of haunted houses and horror movies: scary creations, neither human nor animal, and usually evil.
But it can be helpful to think about “monsters” beyond these knee-jerk images....
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published July 14, 2022
The modern Jewish state of Israel marked its recent 74th anniversary of independence in a subdued and troubled mood.
Israel’s fragile-year-old coalition had lost its one-vote majority in the Knesset. Israeli nationalists encountered violent Palestinian...
BY HOWARD FREEDMAN, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published July 12, 2022
For many of us, summer reading involves books that engage us but don’t feel like work to get through. One genre that frequently fits the bill is mystery. Cases in point: two new Jewish-flavored mystery novels.
Matt Goldman is known for his...
By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 10, 2022
In his new book, “Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD,” former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander shares his struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts following his service in Afghanistan.
On July 14, the JCC...
