CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
One of the highlights of this year's St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is “Neighbours” (“Nachbarn”), a Swiss film set in Syria 40 years ago, in a small village where Kurdish and Jewish families are neighbors. Actually, at this point, there is only one Jewish family left in the village, a change due to the increasingly hostile policies of the ruling Baathist party.
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
Joyful is a good word for Bernadette Wegenstein’s delightful, inspiring biographical documentary “The Conductor,” about Marin Alsop, the first woman conductor of a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It is still an exceedingly...
Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published March 2, 2022
Between work conference calls, Olga Gorodetsky anxiously checks text messages from her mother Valentina Timoshina. They live in vastly different circumstances. Gorodetsky is in her second-floor home office in Chesterfield and Timoshina is hiding out in...
Laughter is one of the great joys of life. There are a lot of ways to laugh, from the full-on belly laugh to the "courtesy chuckle," you might receive when you crack a not-so-funny line. Laughter is part of a universal language of basic emotions that...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 1, 2022
Circus Harmony has a number of close connections to the St. Louis Jewish community, including its mission of tikkun olam, to repair the world.
Its artistic/executive director, Jessica Hentoff, founded Circus Harmony as a non-profit arts education and...
(JTA) — Jewish actor Henry Winkler will star in a new show on Israeli television in Hebrew and English that is being called a “U.S.-Israel crossover” series.
In “Chansi,” the man who brought us beloved characters like Fonzie from “Happy...
CATE MARQUIS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 28, 2022
Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Colin Powell, Carl Reiner and Elliot Gould were all fans of the Automat, the iconic automated cafeterias that dominated New York and Philadelphia in the first half of the 20th century.
Lisa Hurwitz's delightful, enlightening...
BY BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published February 28, 2022
Aging is a challenge as we all know. However, it no longer means having to sit home alone, in a rocking chair on the porch or waiting for the phone to ring.
As aging boomers, whether healthy or not, let’s try to spend our time doing what we can and...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — “Saturday Night Live” is famously “Live from New York,” and in the latest episode the show doubled down on the promise.
In a skit on Saturday’s episode, guest host John Mulaney led the cast in a parody of...
PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published February 27, 2022
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It was my grandmother who tipped me off to “The Automat,” a new documentary about the rise and...
(JTA) — Could the next Jennifer Hudson or Kelly Clarkson be a senior at a Modern Orthodox high school in Los Angeles?
If Danielle Finn has her way, that’s exactly what will happen starting Sunday night when she competes on the new season of “American...
