The just-completed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games included, for the first time, an official memorial to the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Israel had her most successful Olympics participation with 90 athletes competing, a record...
Julia M. Klein, The Forward
• Published August 9, 2021
This article appeared first on Forward. Reposted with permission.
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
By Rebecca Donner
Little, Brown and Company, 576 pages,...
Editor's note: Organizers have postponed the Sababa Jewish Arts & Culture Festival until 2022.
The Jewish Community Center has announced that Sababa, St. Louis’ Jewish Arts & Culture Festival, will be held outdoors on Oct. 10 on the...
TEAM JONJ, JEW OR NOT JEW
• Published August 8, 2021
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...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 8, 2021
Actors get to play make-believe for a living, essentially. Take Lior Raz for example. The 49-year-old Israeli movie star likes to do his own stunts in television series such Netflix's new one, "Hit and Run."
For Raz, who used to serve in the military,...
ALEX KRUTCHIK, CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
• Published August 8, 2021
Eighty-five percent of Jewish Americans are accepting of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute. The study surveyed several religious groups and subgroups, such as Black Protestants, Hispanic Catholics,...
This article originally appeared on Kveller. Reposted with permission.
We are truly kvelling over Jewish actress and absolute icon Jamie Lee Curtis, who reflected in a recent interview with AARP Magazine that now that she’s 62, she’s finally...
RABBI BEN NEWMAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 8, 2021
Each week, Rabbi Ben Newman provides us with our Yiddish Word Of The Week. Newman is the founder and spiritual leader of Shtiebel a new paradigm Jewish community in the Rivertowns of Westchester, NY. He is also the author of several children’s books. Learn...
Lorelai Kude, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published August 8, 2021
ELUL 5781: TESHUVA TIME, AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON
Has any year in recent memory so vividly illustrated the spiritual reality that the actions of one person can affect myriads, for good or for evil? Chodesh Elul, the season of communal and personal...
Laurie Gwen Shapiro, THE FORWARD
• Published August 7, 2021
Today, Dustin Hoffman turns 84, so in honor of his birthday, we wanted to honor him with a look back at his iconic film, "The Graduate." In her essay from 2017, Foward writer Laurie Gwen Shapiro looked at "Just How Jewish Was ‘The Graduate?"
In...
Team JONJ, Jew Or Not Jew
• Published August 6, 2021
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 about...
