Deborah Schneider, Jewish Women’s Archive
• Published March 30, 2022
(JWA) -- Long before her final role as the grouchy bailiff on Night Court, Selma Diamond earned a reputation behind the scenes as a brilliant, salty comedy writer for some of the best shows on radio and television.
Diamond began writing jokes...
(JTA) — Princeton University spent months planning an exhibit of 19th-century American Jewish art before cancelling the show because two of its featured artists had supported the Confederacy.
The cancellation has drawn criticism from the exhibit’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 29, 2022
Mark Levenson's novel takes readers to a world they’ve never entered before: a world in which the vast sweep of Jewish myth and magic is completely real.
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 29, 2022
At a time when we have so much to worry about as war wages on in Ukraine and so many are killed and displaced, we try to limit our whining and complaining. This is especially true with those whom we interact most such as our family members and closest...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 29, 2022
Danielle Finn wowed America and Jews everywhere Monday night as the Modern Orthodox singer from Los Angeles continued her journey on American Idol Season 20's Hollywood Week episode, in which contestants chose their favorite genre in which to compete.
Finn,...
(JNS) When Will Smith jumped up on stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night to approach fellow comedian and actor Chris Rock, the host of the show, many in the audience assumed it was staged. After all, physicality is part of show business. Several...
Dan Epstein, The Forward
• Published March 29, 2022
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I first met Herbie Mann in January 1979, when I noticed him bursting out of a phone booth in the...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 29, 2022
The only thing talked about after last night's 94th Academy Awards was the slap heard around the world. I won't bore you with my take on Will Smith getting out of his seat to walk onstage and smack presenter Chris Rock after a poor taste joke directed...
Faygie Levy Holt, Chabad.org
• Published March 27, 2022
(Chabad.org) -- Fourth-grader Avery McMullen of Haverford, Pa., loves to learn, and says language arts is her favorite subject. But it was her knowledge of Judaism that propelled her to the head of the class in an international Jewish competition for...
Andrew Esenten, Jweekly.com
• Published March 27, 2022
The Bay Area Book Festival has rescinded an invitation to author Alice Walker over incendiary statements she has made over the years about Jews and Israel.
Alice Walker
Walker had been invited to interview writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, at Jeffers’...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published March 27, 2022
If state-subsidized daycare is still a distant dream in most countries, it was a truly radical idea in the 1930s, when few mothers worked outside the home.
Yet that was when this social service was pioneered in Palestine. Jewish women needed safe and...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 27, 2022
If it feels like you're reading about a new incident of antisemitism or attempts to rewrite the history of the Holocaust by changing laws through, as one Jewish lawmaker described, “draconian Holocaust censorship bills," you are correct. The...
