Skip to Main Content
A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Jewish Pop Culture

Mayim Bialik out as Jeopardy! host

Mayim Bialik out as Jeopardy! host

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished December 18, 2023

Mayim Bialik's tenure as the host of "Jeopardy!" has ended. The "Big Bang Theory" star, who was named the permanent co-host of the quiz show alongside former champion Ken Jennings last summer, announced the news on Friday through an Instagram post. "As...

The a Jew-ish list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees

The a Jew-ish list of 2024 Golden Globe nominees

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished December 13, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Before we begin, a moment of interesting l’dor v’dor. On Monday the Golden Globes nominated actor Riley Keough for...

'Roy Kent' AKA actor Brett Goldstein to light up the Fabulous Fox in May 17

‘Roy Kent’ AKA actor Brett Goldstein to light up the Fabulous Fox in May 17

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished December 13, 2023

Jewish actor Brett Goldstein is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is best known for his scene-stealing performance as the brash yet lovable Roy Kent on the Peabody-winning Apple TV+ series, “Ted Lasso.”  But, before he broke through as the onscreen,...

Negave team observing an agave field in the Negev.

Could tequila save war-torn Negev villages?

By Yulia Karra, Israel21CPublished December 13, 2023

When six Israelis decided to make tequila in Israel, they thought their biggest mission would be convincing people that tequila made from blue agave in the Holy Land could rival the well-known and much appreciated tequilas of Mexico. After October...

Victims of the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. 1945 oil painting by David Friedmann, from his series, Because They Were Jews! Brausebad means "shower bath" but this was a gas chamber. Copyright ©1989 Miriam Friedman Morris

St. Louis artist’s 80-year-old art finding new relevance since Oct. 7

Miriam Friedman Morris, Special To The Jewish LightPublished December 11, 2023

This article first appeared in the Times Of Israel and is republished here with permission. Living in peace in Israel has been a challenge since the beginning of the Jewish State. Our enemies try to wipe us off this earth Because We Are Jews! Our fight...

Roberto Benigni in a scene from his film "Life is Beautiful."

Remembering when ‘Life is Beautiful’ hit US theaters 25 years ago and rocked Hollywood

Stephen Silver, Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished December 11, 2023

(JTA) — Ferne Pearlstein re-watched “Life is Beautiful,” Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning Holocaust film, around 2015. She was working on her documentary “The Last Laugh,” which focused on the possibilities — and limits — of Holocaust humor. Pearlstein...

Singer Idina Menzel, with microphone, performs in New York at AMIT’s Evening of Solidarity with the Children of Israel, Nov. 20, 2023. (Abbie Sophia)

With Israel still reeling from Oct. 7, Jewish educational group steps up its support at star-studded evening in NY

LARRY LUXNER, JTAPublished December 8, 2023

NEW YORK — Ilan Abecassis of Sderot is still reeling from the events of Oct. 7. That morning, he watched from the window of his home as terrorists in pickup trucks overran his city, gunning down Israelis in the streets and in their homes. In the...

Jewish celebrities like Billy Crystal, left, and Barbra Streisand, right, have taken to social media to remember Norman Lear, center.

Tributes pour in from Jewish celebs as Hollywood remembers Norman Lear

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished December 6, 2023

(JTA) — Soon after news broke Wednesday morning of Jewish TV pioneer Norman Lear’s death at 101 years old, actors and comedians quickly took to social media to remember the titan of comedy. Tributes poured in from a who’s-who of Jewish celebrities...

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein, in ‘Maestro.’

Leonard Bernstein biopic details conductor’s dual loves: his wife and his music

Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished December 6, 2023

The “Maestro” in the highly anticipated new biopic of that name is Leonard Bernstein, the groundbreaking Jewish-American composer and conductor who became the first American conductor to lead a major American orchestra, as well as being an innovator,...

Eradicate latke stink? That would be a Hanukkah miracle

Eradicate latke stink? That would be a Hanukkah miracle

Amy Fenster BrownPublished December 6, 2023

The definition of a miracle is an extraordinary event not characterized by natural or scientific law, therefore being a supernatural act of divine agency. I didn’t know God started her own agency, but I’m super proud of her.  As we light the first...

Norman Lear attends the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony honoring Marla Gibbs on July 20, 2021 in Hollywood, California.

Norman Lear, creator of pioneering TV comedies including ‘All in the Family,’ dies at 101

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished December 6, 2023

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s death was announced by a spokesperson for his family,...

Blue Bus Productions

Two Holocaust survivors, reunited after 80 years apart

Published December 5, 2023

(New York Jewish Week) — In March 2022, Jack Waksal thought he recognized Sam Ron, the keynote speaker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual South Florida dinner in Boca Raton. But he couldn’t quite place him — after all, at 97, Waksal...

Load More Stories