The St. Louis Jewish Community Center (The J) will host its 44th annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival from November 6-13. The festival features a lineup of bestselling authors, investigative journalists, Netflix stars, nationally known chefs, true crime...
CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA and Jordan Palmer
• Published August 12, 2022
You may want to move quickly on getting your tickets for this upcoming event because appearances by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Twitty are known to sell out quickly.
Twitty, who released a book of recipes and essays that fuses Jewish and...
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...
