We imagine that most of you have been a part of a conversation that goes something like this: “I’m a huge fan of such and such band.” “Me too! You know that the bassist and drummer are Jewish?” “For real?” To help facilitate...

Richard Donner, the Hollywood producer and director best known for his work on the "Lethal Weapon" franchise, the iconic "The Goonies," and the 1978 classic Superman (1978), starring Christopher Reeve and Marlon Brando, died Monday, according to multiple...

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) will take to the road this summer, traveling by bus and truck to eight U.S. cities and arriving in St. Louis on Wednesday, July 14. A group of St. Louis arts leaders including Susan Sherman, who belongs to Temple Emanuel,...

(Israel21c) - As infection rates from the Covid-19 pandemic begin to decline in some countries, the long-term effects of its impact are now becoming clearer. In the wake of rising mortality rates, massive blows to the economy and disruptions to our...

This story originally appeared on Kveller, 70 Faces Media’s Jewish parenting site. In case a pandemic wasn’t quite enough, over the past year we watched the world erupt with desperate calls for social justice, and our society turned an eye toward...

Every Monday and Tuesday, the Jewish Light publishes the remarkable stories of the St. Louis closed but not forgotten restaurants, and some of the dishes they made that became legendary. These stories are published in partnership with St. Louisan Dr....

Ladies and gentlemen, the buffet is open. Once a week, I'll take aim at five things on my mind: a versatile array of sports, entertainment, and South City life. Look for the topics at hand in BOLD. For many, the Fourth of July means fireworks, beer,...

"The Tomorrow War" is the kind of movie where a character asks another in a perilous situation, "does anyone know someone familiar with volcanoes," and the main protagonist either nods or says, "I think I do." That's the world that Chris McKay's film...

Before we get into exciting television show news for Amazon Prime subscribers, let me get a small confession out of the way first. I have watched (and loved) every single episode of "Gilmore Girls." But I have not watched "Marvelous Ms. Maisel"...

From Groucho Marx to the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...

This article originally appeared on Alma. At the turn of the 20th century, the city of Monastir, present-day Bitola in North Macedonia, was home to the country’s largest Jewish community, 11,000 people. That’s about half of the current Jewish...

Born 1910 as Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, New York to Russian-Jewish immigrants, she would become on the stage and film as actress Sylvia Sidney. Sidney rose to fame in the 1930s for playing the partner of gangsters and alongside the leading actors of...