By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published April 28, 2025
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While the newest season of Nathan Fielder’s docu-comedy The Rehearsal aims to fix an epidemic of airplane crashes, episode...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 17, 2025
In a video I predict will become required Passover viewing, actor and voice legend Hank Azaria channels his inner Bruce Springsteen to deliver the “Dayenu” we didn’t know we needed—gravelly vocals, Hebrew lyrics and a klezmer-rock beat included.
Azaria,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 14, 2025
Since joining the Jewish Light I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up and part of that was the Yiddish my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents whom I affectionately named Mama (bubbe) and Baba.
Both would use...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 3, 2025
It’s become a bit of a Passover tradition — just when you’re knee-deep in cleaning and planning for seder, the Jewish a cappella group Six13 drops a new parody video to lighten the mood.
This year is no different. On Thursday, the group released...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published April 2, 2025
My son, Leo, just turned 18. My youngest. My baby. Even though he will always be my baby, to the world he is a legal adult. I have two legal adult children. Old people have adult children, and I’m not the same age as old people, am I? Technically I’m...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 27, 2025
I was recently asked by the mother of an old friend, “Why I do a “Jewish Joke of the Day.” I responded and she thought I should share my answer with you.
I believe as Jews, we love to laugh. I believe Jews love to laugh at themselves and laugh...
Miriam Eve Mora, University of Michigan
• Published March 26, 2025
Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole survivor of a planet destroyed by old age. Discovering he possessed superhuman strength and abilities, the boy committed...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 26, 2025
The New Jewish Theatre (NJT) continued its streak of excellence at the 2025 St. Louis Theater Circle Awards, bringing home three acting honors across two standout productions.
Actors Jacob Schmidt and Spencer Sickmann were recognized for their comedic...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 26, 2025
Shalom, and welcome to the new archive of all the bottom of the email photos. I get asked about them a lot and if I'm saving them. I wasn't, but now I am.
Jordan
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Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 25, 2025
Jessica Radloff, New York Times best-selling author of “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series” and host and executive producer of "The Official Big Bang Theory Podcast," is taking her deep dive into the beloved sitcom...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 20, 2025
My inbox is always interesting.
The other day, I heard from a former St. Louisan named Vic Weisskopf, a veteran who now lives in Chicago but is wisely wintering down in Phoenix, presumably avoiding whatever Midwest weather we're dealing with this week....
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Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural...
