Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport, who was scheduled to perform at the Sheldon Music Hall in St. Louis on Saturday, Nov. 9, has canceled his show. MetroTix notified ticket holders, stating: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Michael Rapaport show...

The brightly colored “Sukkot boxes” offered up on Amazon boasted the colors of spring, not fall; had no ostensible use for the Jewish holiday; and contained a Hebrew misspelling that bordered on obscene. Reader, I bought them. And it wasn’t...

I’ll be the first to admit—I don’t typically spend my evenings watching rom-coms. After bingeing six seasons of "Vikings" and diving into the Menendez brothers' biopic, rom-coms just aren’t my go-to. However, when my wife, the lovely Leigh, suggested...

By Samuel Eli ShepherdSeptember 27, 2024 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Saturday Night Live, or SNL, premiered the first episode of its 50th season...

One of the best things about being Jewish is celebrating holidays. There are the standard American and Hallmark ones like Valentine’s Day and Thanksgiving. Jews get so many extra holidays, including our gift of having two New Year’s celebrations.  When...

As a gender historian and scholar of intermarriage, I binge-watched the new Netflix series “Nobody Wants This” with a combination of foreboding and optimism. Depictions of romances between Jewish men and Christian women have been ubiquitous in...

“Nobody Wants This,” a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a blond, agnostic sex and dating podcaster played by Kristen Bell, is based on a true story — kind of. Erin Foster, the creator of...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As far back as he can remember, Noah Rinsky dreamed of becoming an Old Jewish Man — but it wasn’t always a good dream. Growing...

In my last column I mentioned an advice book I wanted to write for my older son, Davis, titled, “Quantity Over Quality: The College Years.”  It’s a guide to navigating your years in higher education, featuring practical advice about dating, partying...

It’s been said that God gives her toughest battles to her strongest soldiers. Parents sending their kids off to college are training in boot camp, prepping to march on the front lines of an emotional combat zone. We need the strength of a full platoon...

(New York Jewish Week) — “We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated all the desserts, and my new husband simply...

I’m six months shy of 80 and in two weeks I’ll head from Vermont to Chattanooga, Tennessee, to do 75 minutes of stand-up comedy. Why am I still out there? As Bob Newhart, who died this week at 94, explained, it was worth it to him to take his...