Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published July 14, 2021
Before Steven Woolf directed a production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” in 2010 at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, he traveled to Amsterdam and visited the annex where Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust.
“The place is just filled...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 13, 2021
Jon Bernthal didn't exactly aspire to be an actor as a kid; it was something the son of Jewish parents in Washington, D.C. fell into while attending college in Moscow. Spotted by the theater director at Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theater,...
Abigail Ellis, Jewish Unpacked
• Published July 13, 2021
This article originally appeared at jewishunpacked.com. Reposted with permission.
If you’ve been online today, you’ve probably seen the trailer that dropped for Netflix’s new show “My Unorthodox Life.” The trailer opens with the question,...
This article originally appeared on Kveller.
With 46% of Americans fully vaccinated, trials for children under 12 in progress and a population eager to put the last year and a half in the rearview mirror, it’s no surprise that the cultural timeline...
YiddishWit.com is a collection of Yiddish proverbs and sayings and expressions that are published in Yiddish and that lend themselves to illustration. The illustrations are created by Johanna Kovitz, and are adaptations and recombinations of existing...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published July 13, 2021
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance in the same film, “The Lucky Dog” (1921) by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the comedy duo whose work featured...
For so many of us, going to summer camp as a kid helped form our Jewish identities. Jewish camps, in particular, can provide incredibly meaningful experiences: In addition to being a total blast, camp is a place for young Jews to learn more about themselves...
(JTA) — Israel has begun inviting immunocompromised adults to receive a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, as case rates in the country have risen again due to the spread of the Delta variant.
Israel led the world in vaccinating most of its population...
(JTA) — For years, my wife told me her outlook on fashion was inspired by Man Repeller, the edgy publication founded by Leandra Medine Cohen, a Jewish prep school graduate who encouraged her followers to dress for themselves, not for the men around...
DAN BUFFA, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published July 12, 2021
Ari Folman had an order from his mother and a wish from the father of the subject from his latest film, "Where Is Anne Frank?"
According to the Israeli filmmaker-whose new film is debuting at the Cannes Film Festival this month-it was Otto Frank...
A groundbreaking technology that can restore the sense of touch to nerves damaged as a result of amputation or injury has been developed by a team of scientists in Israel.
The technology, developed at Tel Aviv University and tested so far only in animals,...
