By Jim Sullivan, The Forward
• Published June 14, 2022
I grew up in central Maine in the ’60s and ’70s, and while we weren’t exactly the Mayberry of the North — the fictional town of “The Andy Griffith Show” — if you were looking to find a nearly 100% all-white Catholic and Protestant enclave...
(JTA) — Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ShvomBob Kvadrat-hoyzn, of course. And now the Jewish world knows how to say “SpongeBob SquarePants” in Yiddish, thanks to a translation of the animated kid show’s theme song by Eddy Portnoy, the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 13, 2022
It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your bubbe or at least a part of her, you took for granted.
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...
NATE BLOOM, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published June 9, 2022
The sixth “Jurassic Park” movie, “Jurassic World Dominion,” opens in theaters on June 10. In this sequel, humans and dinosaurs now live near each other all over the world and the question is: Who will emerge as the “apex predator?”
The...
(JTA) — Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party.
Now it looks like his production company is making a bat mitzvah-themed film.
The casting site Backstage has posted a casting call for an in-the-works adaptation...
Jewish dad Andy Cohen and his kids, three-year-old Ben and baby Lucy, are truly a blessing to us all. Cohen recently posted a video of Ben giving him a pep talk in the car — and it will not only cure all of your potential road rage but will also...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 26, 2022
How did a popular Yiddish woman's name come to mean gossip and busybody? In the first of our new Word of the Week mini-series, we trace the evolution of the word yenta. Producer Jen Richler talks with Fiddler on the Roof scholar Jan Lisa Huttner, comedian...
(JTA) – Imagine a village full of Borats, and you’re close to realizing the absurdity of Chelm. The real-life Polish shtetl, a popular subject of Jewish folklore and Yiddish authors including Isaac Bachevis Singer, took on a mythic identity as a village...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 17, 2022
On May 1, 2019, Glamour magazine's West Coast Editor and St. Louis native Jessica Radloff posted this picture on Facebook, from the set of "The Big Bang Theory."
"This is all I’m allowed to...
On Friday the 13th, we brace ourselves for ominous mishaps—elevators plummeting, relationships unraveling, or catastrophes that seem plucked from disaster movies. Americans are so wary of the number 13 that many buildings skip the 13th floor entirely....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 3, 2022
During Covid, "pandemic pups" became all the rage. More than 23 million American households — nearly 1 in 5 nationwide — adopted a pet during the pandemic, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). My social...
No offense to Mrs. Maisel, but Sam Fox on FX’s “Better Things” is the Jewish icon we need to see on TV. The final season of the show, about a working actor and single mom to three teenagers, displays all the traits we love in Jewish women while...
