July 1, 1973 — Israeli Military Attache Is Killed in Maryland Col. Yosef “Joe” Alon, a military attache at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, is shot five times in his driveway in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and dies within an hour at a hospital....

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This story first appeared on Kveller. Reposted with permission. If you love Jewish TV, you already know Israeli superstar Shira Haas. After making a big splash in “Shtisel,” and then, “Unorthodox” — the 2020 miniseries about a young woman...

Seventeen years ago, browsing in a New Orleans bookstore, Henry I. Schvey made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: An unpublished, entirely unknown poem by Tennessee Williams. Today, the title of that poem is the title of Schvey’s new book, “Blue Song:...

The St. Louis Art Museum attracts art lovers from around the country.  But, did you know that this treasure located at the top of Art Hill in Forest Park houses a truly impressive collection of Jewish art in many forms. Jewish Art Inside the St. Louis...

In the 1982 film, “My Favorite Year,” the lead character, Bengie Stone, a Jewish comedy writer who worked on a fictional version of Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Show’s” is on a date, and trying to explain to his non-Jewish date, that “Jews...

This story orginally appeared in the Jewish News of Northern California  As the one-year anniversary of school closures in California approached a few months ago, Sunnyvale singer-songwriter and mother of four Ifat Orgad decided to channel her frustration...

The St. Louis Jewish Light is launching a new feature, Jewish Song of the Week, in which we share a quality track from Jewish Rock Radio, an online radio station, or JKids Radio, an online radio service featuring Jewish children’s music. We plan to...

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in over two years, cinemas are getting a fresh Marvel Cinematic Universe entry. The last time we spent time with an avenger, a pandemic was still almost a year away and Peter Parker was our way out of the cocoon...

The St. Louis Jewish community has known for quite a while that the Sklar Brothers are a funny duo. Now the rest of the country is finding out. Jason and Randy Sklar, twin Jewish brothers who grew up in St. Louis and graduated from Parkway North High...

This week marks the 50-year anniversary of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” a classic kids film that was adapted from the novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl. Gene Wilder, born Jerome Silberman to a Jewish family,...

This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission. In the pantheon of name-brand Founding Fathers, Haym Salomon stands well back of the pack. His picture is not on our currency, his statue is not in the Capitol Rotunda, and...