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Anne Frank

Anne Frank quote inspiring this year’s Holocaust Art and Writing Contest 

Published January 17, 2022

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is seeking entries for the 2022 Art and Writing Contest. The national contest asks creative middle and high school students in grades 6 through 12 to express the difficult and inspiring lessons of the Holocaust. Entries...

Haim for the Oscar? That, and what to watch this week in Jewish entertainment

Haim for the Oscar? That, and what to watch this week in Jewish entertainment

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 14, 2022

2022 presents a brand new world of entertainment, stretching outside the television set and local mall. These days, if you don't have a Tik Tok account, it feels like you're outside the party while everybody else is inside laughing. Enter Miriam...

Liev Schreiber’s 'Ray Donovan: The movie' arrives but does it deliver?

Liev Schreiber’s ‘Ray Donovan: The movie’ arrives but does it deliver?

Dan Buffa and Jordan Palmer, Special For The Jewish LightPublished January 14, 2022

This is true. In 2014, writer Joshua Neuman, writing for Heeb magazine, called the “Ray Donovan” series, which aired on Showtime, “the “most important Jewish show on television.” Yes, the story of a family of Irish Catholics from south Boston,...

Synagogues face tough COVID questions (again) as Omicron surges

Synagogues face tough COVID questions (again) as Omicron surges

Published January 14, 2022

(JTA) — Nearly two years ago, when the pandemic hit the United States, synagogues were lauded for rapidly moving their entire slate of programming and worship online, and for finding ways to connect with congregants in a world where few were leaving...

Big changes, new bagels and a viral video, all new from Lefty's Bagels

Big changes, new bagels and a viral video, all new from Lefty’s Bagels

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished January 13, 2022

If your first rule of where you buy your bagels is to buy from someone who is sort of mean, no fun, and doesn't like making bagels, then please read no further. The guy's from Lefty's Bagels are not for you. Here's proof, and just in time for...

Detail from "Entertainment," a drawing of the Terezín concentration camp by Bedřich Fritta, from 1943. Collection of Thomas Fritta Haas. ("Our Will to Live" by Mark Ludwig, published by Steidl)

A musician’s project sheds new light on artistic life in the Terezín concentration camp

JONAH GOLDMAN KAY, JTAPublished January 13, 2022

(JTA) — Over the past several decades, the Terezín concentration camp has come to be synonymous with the music of the Holocaust because of the number of performers who were imprisoned there. Now, in the latest production associated with a foundation...

Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about the 3 bubbes on the bench?

Jewish Jokes: Did you hear the one about the 3 bubbes on the bench?

Published January 12, 2022

"Jewish humor has sustained our people for centuries, through hardship and tyranny." - Michael Krasny Your Jewish Joke Of The Week If you have a joke please send it via email to [email protected]. If I use your joke I’ll send you coupons...

St. Louis Jewish Film Festival moving to spring thanks to participants comments

St. Louis Jewish Film Festival moving to spring thanks to participants comments

Published January 12, 2022

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all," is a popular old adage, and one the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is adhering to, as organizers announce the 27th annual festival will be held virtually this spring, March 6 – 13, instead...

10 fun facts about Tu B’Shevat

10 fun facts about Tu B’Shevat

BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 12, 2022

1. In Israel, Tu B’Shevat is like Earth Day, raising awareness about the ecology. 2. Part of the environmental awareness is to plant a tree or start an herb garden. 3. Planting trees in Israel is especially important right now; many were lost...

Vicki Lander is the owner of Flower Hill Farm. File photo: Bill Motchan

Tu B’Shevat is the right time to begin growing seder ingredients

BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished January 12, 2022

This weekend is a good time to begin preparing for your Passover seder. With three months to go, you can delay boiling eggs and stocking up on horseradish. But it’s an ideal time to plant parsley indoors. The 90-day window should be just about right...

Mimi David

When it comes to raising kids, Judaism says punishments are not cool

MIMI DAVID, Special to the Jewish LightPublished January 12, 2022

“Mommy, Yoni made me look like a boy!” It was 7 a.m. and I had been up all night with the kids. Finally about 5:30 a.m., things settled and I fell into a deep and much needed sleep. When my daughter came to share this exciting development with...

New Jewish Theatre will revisit Neill Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" for the opening of its 2022 season. Above: A photo of the cast of NJT's 2010 production of the play. (John Lamb)

New Jewish Theatre postpones opening of its 24th season

Published January 11, 2022

The New Jewish Theatre has postponed performances of its 24th season kickoff show, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” which was originally scheduled to open Jan. 20. The new start date is Feb. 10. “We have been monitoring the situation with the Omicron...

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