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Life lessons at 50 plus: "Out of the Mouths of Babes"

Life lessons at 50 plus: “Out of the Mouths of Babes”

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANEPublished January 25, 2022

What have we learned from our offspring? Plenty. As children growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, our primary role was to be seen and not heard. Advice was doled out like morning vitamins with such directives as “Sit up straight,” “Chew with your...

Israeli COVID expert panel recommends expanding 4th vaccine dose to all adults over 18

Israeli COVID expert panel recommends expanding 4th vaccine dose to all adults over 18

Published January 25, 2022

(JTA) — A panel of experts that advises the Health Ministry on matters related to the coronavirus is recommending that all adults over the age of 18 be offered a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine, The Times of Israel reported. Israel is believed...

Jewish Song of the Week: 'Painting Our World in Healing and Hope'

Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Painting Our World in Healing and Hope’

Published January 24, 2022

“Painting Our World in Healing and Hope” by Karina Zilberman (JKids Radio) This latest wave of COVID has been really tough on young families, and it reminded me of this really moving and hopeful song released earlier in the pandemic by the sweet...

Jewish Trivia: Jon Stewart

Jewish Trivia: Jon Stewart

MARK D. ZIMMERMAN, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 24, 2022

It was just announced that Jon Stewart will be the recipient of the 2022 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award program will take place at the Kennedy Center on April 24, and will later be broadcast on television. Stewart...

The hazards of online dating for a mature Jew

The hazards of online dating for a mature Jew

Julia M. Klein, The ForwardPublished January 24, 2022

This story was originally published on January 24 by The Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from The Forward delivered to you each morning. Maybe It’s Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman It was the title essay, about Eileen...

How Bradley Cooper convinced Spielberg to let him direct his Leonard Bernstein biopic

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 24, 2022

Imagine screening a movie for legendary Jewish director Steven Spielberg. You’re not showing mom and dad your movie; it’s just one of the best filmmakers of all time getting ready to watch your movie in your home. The thing you spent countless...

‘None of us can hide’: RFK Jr. uses Holocaust analogy in speech at anti-vaccine mandate rally

‘None of us can hide’: RFK Jr. uses Holocaust analogy in speech at anti-vaccine mandate rally

Published January 24, 2022

(JTA) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. compared what he sees as threats to human life from 5G, vaccine passports, and “low-orbit satellites” to the threat the Nazis posed to Jews during the Holocaust. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could...

Among the children in this Camp Ramot Amoona photo are two future rabbis serving the St. Louis area: Rabbi Daniel Bogard and Rabbi Jordan Gerson.

Many rabbis were launched toward clergy at Jewish summer camp

BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT Published January 23, 2022

A Jewish summer camp experience can build skills and character that last well into adulthood. For some kids, the camp experience was meaningful enough that it played a role in their decision to become a rabbi. Rabbi Daniel Bogard of Central Reform...

The best Jewish TV, movies and books to look out for in 2022

The best Jewish TV, movies and books to look out for in 2022

Lauren Hakimi, The ForwardPublished January 22, 2022

This story was originally published on January 19, by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. 2020 and 2021 will likely not be remembered as the most enjoyable years in American history,...

Corey Stoll is back! What to watch, not watch, this week in Jewish entertainment

Corey Stoll is back! What to watch, not watch, this week in Jewish entertainment

Published January 21, 2022

Corey Stoll takes on a new, big role on Showtime's "Billions" The Jewish everyman actor can sink into just about any ensemble you put him in. Hopefully, you caught his amazing portrayal of a young Junior Soprano in "The Many Saints of Newark" on HBO...

Remembering "The American Jewish Hour" and its voice, Robert Lurie

Remembering “The American Jewish Hour” and its voice, Robert Lurie

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 21, 2022

In post-World War II America, Jews in more than 150 cities tuned in every Sunday afternoon to hear what some described as the "voice of the Jewish community." That voice belonged to Robert Lurie, who lived and created his radio show the “American Jewish...

Yep, we now have Hebrew and Yiddish Wordle

Yep, we now have Hebrew and Yiddish Wordle

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 20, 2022

Hopefully, you are now not only officially hip to what Wordle is, but its Jewish roots. If not, please read here.  We'll wait. Since Wordle went viral, it has inspired a seemingly endless array of spoofs and knockoffs, including now a Hebrew and Yiddish...

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