(JTA) — Will there be a Martha’s Vineyard episode, and if there is, who plays Alan Dershowitz?
The pandemic-delayed 11th season of Larry David’s signature misanthropic series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is set to debut on HBO in October, the...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 23, 2021
Somewhere in Hollywood, a good movie about John Vogel, the most notorious counterfeiter in U.S. history, exists. Sean Penn's "Flag Day," unfortunately, isn't that movie.
It's too bad because the talent assembled here is impressive. Penn, who directed...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 23, 2021
It is true. According to the trumpeters official biography, Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. He was raised by his mother Mayann in a neighborhood so dangerous it was called “The Battlefield.” He only had a...
Rebecca Salzhauer, Forward
• Published August 23, 2021
Whether you’re hoping for an in-person holiday or gearing up for the second year of virtual services, this year’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur come with unique challenges — and opportunities. Although the COVID-19 Delta variant means some synagogues’...
It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do.
So, to better answer the question...
“You’re the guy that slices lox!” she screamed as I passed her on my way to the garage after a day’s work at Zabar’s.
She was very excited. “Did you see it?” she asked.
“See what?” I said.
“You’re on my phone; come here...
It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do.
So, to better answer the question...
(JTA) — Israel has ended a restriction on blood donation that effectively prohibited gay men from donating blood.
Until now, Israel had prohibited any man who had had same-sex relations over the past 12 months from giving blood. Now, the question’s...
Netflix’s best new comedy ends its first episode with a Nazi salute.
In the fictional mini Ivy, Pembroke University, a popular professor, Bill Dobson, strides into his packed classroom. He writes “Absurdism” on the board and, right above it,...
Robert Adler was a brilliant physicist and inventor who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, came to the U.S. to help discover innovations like the electric beam parametric amplifier and touch-screen technology. But he is best-known as “the father of the...
