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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Jewish Pop Culture

Love Jewish TV? Join the Jewish TV Club!

Love Jewish TV? Join the Jewish TV Club!

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 3, 2024

Are you the type who can't help but point out every Jewish actor in a TV show? Still captivated by "Shtisel"? Do you binge-watch series that delve into Jewish history like "We Were the Lucky Ones," "The Club," and "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem"? Are...

Kafka and two men with suspicious intentions. Photo by ORF/Superfilm/Nicole Albiez

New miniseries unravels the life of the most famous Jewish insurance clerk

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished June 2, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. It is perhaps best, in the case of Franz Kafka, history’s most famous insurance clerk, to review his brief existence...

Top shows and festivals you can't miss this month

Top shows and festivals you can’t miss this month

By Patricia Corrigan, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 30, 2024

No time to waste — Opera Theatre is up and running, the Missouri History Museum has opened a remarkable new exhibit on the 1904 World’s Fair and free music concerts at Missouri Botanical Garden start soon.  Plus, you have tickets to buy for the...

Dr. Mollie Wallick

The untold story of Jewish gay rights pioneer Dr. Mollie Wallick

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 29, 2024

The St. Louis Jewish Light is proud to announce the continuation of our partnership with the JWA. Together, we will bring many parts of the JWA collection to St. Louis readers, as well as promote the “Can We Talk?” podcast by sharing both current...

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Höss, and Hans-Jurgen Höss visit Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

New film revealing the true Holocaust story behind ‘The Zone of Interest’ opens in St. Louis

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished May 28, 2024

(JTA) — In “The Zone of Interest,” the Oscar-winning drama about life adjacent to Auschwitz, the children of Rudolf Höss, the Nazi concentration camp’s commandant, are only dimly aware of the horrors unfolding on the other side of the fence. Now,...

Mila (Hadas Yaron) digs her own grave that she somehow escapes from. Courtesy of Hulu

What’s behind the boom in Holocaust TV?

By PJ Grisar, Mira FoxPublished May 27, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As Jewish journalists, we get a lot of pitches about the Holocaust. A book about Mengele, a documentary about the Bielski...

Marian Steen

From ceramics to watercolors, B’nai Amoona hosts eclectic art show

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 21, 2024

If you are of the belief that the world is a canvas and if you know where to look, you'll find strokes of art waiting to be appreciated, then let us point you in the direction of B'nai Amoona. The Art Gallery of B'nai Amoona is inviting all...

Rabbi Jill Hausman of the Actors' Temple in New York appears on 'Saturday Night Live' on May 18, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Meet Jill Hausman, the real rabbi who grimaced through jokes about Jews on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished May 20, 2024

(JTA) — For Rabbi Jill Hausman, spiritual leader of the Actors’ Temple in Manhattan’s Theater District, working with celebrities comes with the job description.  So when she saw an email on Thursday from “Saturday Night Live,” asking...

The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Josh White, JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation)

LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished May 20, 2024

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Today’s understanding of Hollywood — the glitz, the glam, the red carpets and paparazzi — are a far cry from the film industry’s humble beginnings, when a group of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe laid the groundwork...

Jessica Cohen has translated more than 30 books and dozens of shorter works by some of the most renowned Israeli writers. (Graphic: Andrew Esensten; Photo: Soona)

How Jessica Cohen became the go-to English translator of contemporary Israeli literature

Andrew Esensten, JTAPublished May 20, 2024

Sign up now to attend JTA’s event with translator Jessica Cohen on May 20 at 6 p.m. ET online. (J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Anyone who has read any books or essays by contemporary Israeli writers has probably encountered...

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The funniest Iranian Jew in the world is coming to St. Louis

Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 15, 2024

A special night of comedy, food and fellowship is coming up June 10 at The Factory in Chesterfield. The Men’s Event is being planned by Jewish Federation to bring together a wide cross-section of the community. According to Amy Bornstein, senior...

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The secret Jewish history of cicadas

By Seth Rogovoy, The ForwardPublished May 15, 2024

Do you hear that? What’s that buzzing noise? If you live between Tennessee and New York — especially if you live in Ohio, Maryland, or the Virginias — and if it’s mid-to-late May or June, chances are good that what you’re hearing are...

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