Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 3, 2021
The 30th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival will feature several Israeli and Jewish-interest films, in a mix of in-person and virtual screenings, plus a special event. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend and COVID procedures...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 3, 2021
Few actors are having a better fall season than Timothée Chalamet. He's the top-billed name of Denis Villenueve's polarizing epic, "Dune," and has a nice supporting turn in Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch." He also has a supporting role in Adam McKay's...
This week, one of our favorite St. Louis Jewish celebrities brought a bit of sweetness to our lives. Andy Cohen will now have his own ice cream flavor sold at Clementine’s Naughty and Nice Creamery, with half of the sales of “Peppermint Andy,” to...
Robert A. Cohn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 3, 2021
Readers of the St. Louis Jewish Light may be aware of my lifelong love affair with comic books and my pride in the fact that many of the creators, story writers and artists within the industry are Jewish.
I’ve been especially fond of Superman, the...
Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published November 2, 2021
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Ava DuVernay is best known for hard-hitting films that take on race in America, whether...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2021
Every great television show needs at least one excellent character in it. A character who can show up and make a mediocre episode shine brighter or just make the entire story appear more cohesive. Somebody who can shake things up in a good way and keep...
They’re back . . . live and in person.
After the COVID-19 pandemic turned last year’s event virtual, Brothers Lazaroff is excited to be back in-person for 2021’s Hanukkah Hullabaloo, the band’s 11th annual, Saturday, Dec. 4 from 7 to 10 p.m....
(JTA) — When Rabbi Lisa Gelber heard that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 5-11, she couldn’t wait for the moment that her daughter would get the shot.
But she also knew her daughter...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published November 1, 2021
A third (booster) dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 is 93 percent effective in protecting individuals against severe Covid-19-related outcomes, compared with two doses received at least five months earlier.
This conclusion is based...
It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your grandfather or at least a part of him, you took for granted.
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...
Jordan Palmer, DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
• Published October 31, 2021
Are you on Spotify? You need to be this week to enjoy and celebrate one of the greatest and most tragic Jewish artists of the last century.
Spotify “enhances” certain albums by turning them into a playlist, but it's usually newer music that gets...
Inscribed upon the Statue of Liberty are the words of Jewish poet Emma Lazarus:
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."
Lazarus wrote the words as part of her poem, "The...
