Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 26, 2022
Jewish humor can be difficult to define. As William Novak and Moshe Waldoks write in "The Big Book of Jewish Humor," it is easier to describe Jewish humor in terms of what it is not, than what it is.
It is not, for example, escapist. It is not slapstick....
SUZANNE EPSTEIN-LANG , SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published January 26, 2022
In case you have been living under a rock, there was a popular challenge on social media recently in which participants posted a photo of themselves 10 years ago, along with a current one. Though I see its pitfalls, I must admit I love social media...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published January 26, 2022
If there's an official festival for the launch of the new year's film season, it's Sundance.
Popping its head out of the ground in January with the best and brightest films that most of the world will see at the end of the year, the Park City, Utah-located...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 26, 2022
Earlier this month, 42 metro area high school acts competed in the semi-final round of the 12th Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition. The acts feature four categories (vocal, instrumental, dance, and specialty). Local judges viewed and scored the...
It’s back . . . .
Jewish Federation of St. Louis and the Jewish Community Center are bring back the area’s largest Jewish arts and culture festival. It is scheduled to take place Sept. 18 at Andrew and Ann Tisch Park on the east entrance of the...
(JTA) – What really happened near a beach in Israel in 1948?
The question, once debated in a 20-year-old libel suit that served as a microcosm for the battle over Israel’s historical record, reentered the public consciousness this week. Entities...
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Although the first three performances of the "The Prom" at the Fox Theatre have been...
By Nate Bloom, By Nate Bloom Special to the Jewish Light
• Published January 25, 2022
I was asleep at the wheel last month when “American Auto,” an NBC sit-com about a Detroit-based auto company, “sneak previewed” its first two episodes. I just caught up with those episodes, which are free to view on Peacock and online. New episodes...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 25, 2022
In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, ChaiFlicks will be offering six complimentary films on the platform to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
The six movies, 5 features, and one documentary were...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published 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...
(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...
“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...
