Kate Hennessey, Kveller
• Published February 14, 2022
I feel like I’m waking up after over a year of being a groggy golem: functional, but without much motivation or desire of my own. I realized recently that I don’t take many pictures of myself anymore and I think I’ve been unconsciously avoiding...
NANCY KRANZBERG, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 11, 2022
I clipped an interesting article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a few months ago, which made reference to the Poster House museum in New York City. I was shocked to find that is the only museum in the United States devoted to poster art.
The...
(JTA) — In the first season of Netflix’s “My Unorthodox Life,” Julia Haart had a loving husband, a thriving career and a family that seemed to deftly navigate varying levels of Jewish observance.
Season 2 will tell a different story.
Over...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 10, 2022
Hopefully soon, we'll all be able to pack our bags and fly off to wherever in the world we care to go. But, for now, COVID has changed the way we travel, and experiencing and exploring the world's Jewish sites is best done virtually.
Virtual travel...
It was 2 a.m. in March of 2020, and my daughter and I watched the COVID news while scrolling through Hillel’s College Guide to find schools with a Jewish population.
One by one, we went through the list to find a school with a Jewish population....
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 9, 2022
The one thing that soap opera stars will always have on movie stars is that they can always drop back into their hit show and continue a character's story. Most popular television shows do eventually end, and most movie series also hit a brick wall...
Miep Gies also found Anne’s diary after the family was arrested by the Nazis and guarded it until Otto Frank—Anne’s father and the only family member to survive the war—shared it with the world.
(JTA) — A musical about a Philadelphia-area rabbi who had his wife murdered in 1994 is stirring painful memories among his former congregants.
The Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday reported that the Gefen Playhouse in Los Angeles is set to debut...
“The Mishkan Song” by Eliana Light (JKids Radio)
"Now is the time of year when we read in the Torah about how the Israelites all contributed to building the Mishkan (Tabernacle), a sanctuary where they could feel close to God. Eliana Light’s...
Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published February 8, 2022
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Midge Maisel has come a long way since we first met her in a basement comedy club in Greenwich...
