Kate Hennessey, Kveller
• Published February 6, 2022
Jewish life and culture are centralized around family structure, from milestones to holidays to gatherings and community programming. It’s a part of Jewish life I have always loved and found beautiful — but that has always been bittersweet for me,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 4, 2022
As we move into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all watching the seemingly never-ending seesaw of numbers caused by the omicron surge, and now the “omicron BA.2” variant. Add to that the political divisiveness over the vaccine, staffing...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 4, 2022
It's that time again to relax and watch some movies and television shows. Here's what to watch this week in Jewish entertainment
Stream a unique take on Anne Frank
While "My Best Friend Anne Frank" isn't exactly engineered to make you relax, it will...
Rishona Campbell, The Forward
• Published February 3, 2022
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Before anything else, let me say that I have no intention of “canceling” Whoopi Goldberg....
Melanie Phillips, JNS
• Published February 3, 2022
The signature characteristic of German Nazism was that it set out to exterminate Jews as a race, identifying them as targets for annihilation on the basis of even a tenuous ancestral connection with Judaism.
Spoiler alert: This story contains details from “Seeing the Light,” the season finale of HBO’s “And Just Like That,” which first aired Feb. 3, 2022.
(JTA) — The previews for the season finale of “And Just Like That,” the “Sex and...
“History Will Ask” by Beth Schafer (Jewish Rock Radio)
“I wanted to pick a song this week with a message to honor Black History Month in February. This special song by my friend Beth Schafer who is a songleader, singer-songwriter and cantorial...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published February 2, 2022
The recent — and extraordinarily dumb — decision by a Tennessee school board to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust-themed graphic novel “Maus” from its library is a reminder that mice cartoons have grown way beyond Mickey,...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 2, 2022
There are many ways to honor someone. But the best possible way to honor the late Jewish comedy maestro Bob Saget would be gathering a bunch of his close friends and family to put on a comedy show for the ages. Shiva for the ultimate dirty old man comic...
The New Jewish Theatre is extending the previously announced postponement of performances for “Laughter on the 23rd Floor.” The new dates for the production are March 24 to April 10. This further change in the schedule will result in the complete...
