Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 21, 2022
As the Jewish entertainment community adores Rachael Brosnahan reprising her role on the acclaimed "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" with a new fourth season, there are plenty of other movies and television shows out there to explore this weekend. Maybe a few...
ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-Chief
• Published February 21, 2022
Vera Kessler recently started a new Jewish podcast that covers a variety of different topics, including parenting, marriage and building a Jewish home. Called America’s Top Rebbetzins, it includes two local rebbetzins (a rabbi’s spouse) from St....
NATE BLOOM, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 20, 2022
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” the hit Amazon Prime series about a Jewish comedian, finally returns for a fourth, eight-episode season on Feb. 18 after the pandemic long delayed filming. New episodes of “Maisel” were last released in Dec. 2019. ...
BURTON BOXERMAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 20, 2022
When Dvora Hacohen, professor and historian of modern Jewish history at Bar Ilan University in Israel, was looking for an inclusive biography of Henrietta Szold, she was unable to find one. She was surprised because Szold was considered the most famous...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 20, 2022
Dean Robbins fondly remembers growing up in St. Louis and playing softball at the Jewish Community Center. When he was rounding the bases, “I was thinking about Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Lou Brock and all the great Cardinal stars in the late ’60s.”
He...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 20, 2022
In December, a St. Louis mishpacha (family) group created by the Jewish Community Center celebrated its 40-year anniversary. The 15-family group includes two original members. Through four decades, they’ve celebrated simchas and mourned losses together....
(JTA) — Most film debuts don’t include licking a taser while dressed as a mime, or having a scorpion crawl on one’s face. But when it comes to the “Jackass” TV and movie franchise, that’s par for the course.
That doesn’t mean Rachel Wolfson’s...
(JTA) — Having obsessively watched every episode of “Srugim,” a “Friends”-like series about Modern Orthodox singles in Jerusalem; “Shtisel,” about a perpetually lovelorn haredi man and his family; and “Mekimi,” which focuses on a secular...
Just days ago, my older kid turned 16. Sixteen! That means in addition to driving us crazy, he’s driving himself and his little brother all over town. Said little brother will be 15 pretty soon.
These two above-average mensches are full of thoughts...
Rudy Malcom, The Forward
• Published February 17, 2022
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Just a day before the highly anticipated Season 4 premiere of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”,...
(JTA) — Israel is dropping its “Green Pass” system that allowed access to public venues only to people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
Since the pandemic’s start, Israel has been at the forefront of many phases: infection,...
