This story was originally published on Feb. 8 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Midge Maisel has come a long way since we first met her in a basement comedy club in Greenwich...

Back by popular demand, St. Louis Jewish Light Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Bob Cohn is returning for his every-other-month meeting of "On the Record with Bob Cohn." The meeting will take place this Friday, February 11 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Bob will...

Everyone has pet peeves. Everyone has things that annoy them to no end. And everyone has to let those things out to free the space in their mind being taken up by negativity.  Because you and I have built this relationship of acceptance and trust,...

St. Louis native Andy Cohen had what many of us would describe as a good week. To lead off, the Clayton High School grad, celebrated his son Ben's 3rd birthday, while receiving a special honor himself. Cohen, the host of "Watch What Happens Live,"...

Jason Brown is a Jewish figure skater who will be representing the United States at the Beijing Olympic Games. He has won numerous events in the past, including 9 medals at Grand Prix international events, the 2015 United States National Championship,...

It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your grandfather or at least a part of him, you took for granted. Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...

“Suspicion” is an original eight-episode Apple+ series that begins streaming on Feb. 4.  It’s based on “False Flag,” an Israeli series. Uma Thurman plays a businesswoman whose son is kidnapped. If “Suspicion” follows “False Flag,” as...

Camp changed my life. Maybe that’s a little cliché, but for me it is entirely true. And I know the same is true for so many others who have attended or worked at summer camps throughout their lives.  Camp is a place where we are able to lean on...

(JTA) — Tinder says it has banned Shimon Hayut and all of his known aliases. But it’s hard to imagine anyone swiping right on the Israeli who masqueraded as a son of the Russian-Israeli diamond dealer Lev Leviev while allegedly defrauding women...

The Eleven.  That’s the shorthand name I’ve given to the bipartisan group of women who currently serve in Missouri’s senate. Eleven is an historic number.  It is more women serving together in the upper chamber than ever before in Missouri’s...

As the new president of PROMO, Missouri’s statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization, Dr. Ken Haller recalls being on a panel at Webster University’s LBGTQ film festival in 2006 discussing a documentary about marriage equality in Massachusetts. There were...