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Recruit the director of the Chernobyl mini series and help him get Happy Gilmore to star in a homage to Andrei Tarkovsky’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 5, 2024
The St. Louis Jewish Light is proud to announce the continuation of our partnership with the JWA. Together, we will bring many parts of the JWA collection to St. Louis readers, as well as promote the “Can We Talk?” podcast by sharing both current...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 4, 2024
For more than a decade, filmmaker Julia Mintz meticulously crafted her award-winning documentary “Four Winters” to challenge existing myths surrounding Jewish survival during World War II, offering a new and differing portrayal...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published February 29, 2024
(JTA) — Comedian Richard Lewis, who parlayed his neurotic Jewish personality and self-deprecating humor into a 50-year career as a standup and actor, died Wednesday. He was 76.
Lewis had been in ill health for a number of years and last April announced...
By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published February 28, 2024
“COVID radicalized me,” Chaya Raichik, the founder of right-wing social media channel Libs of TikTok, told Washington Post technology columnist Taylor Lorenz in an interview posted to YouTube on Saturday.
Libs of TikTok, Raichik’s account,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 28, 2024
From the Yiddish, "Etlekhe zakhn ir nor ton nit balagan mit" which means "There are things you just don't mess with," our friends from Philadelphia Cream Cheese are "messing."
Last month, the famed cream cheesers announced:
"Philadelphia is uniting...
In a recently published interview, The Hollywood Reporter talked with Jewish director Steven Spielberg about his 1993 film, "Schindler's List," which is considered one of the most important movies about the Holocaust. The interview pegged to the 30-year-anniversary...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published February 26, 2024
Kids these days. The older mine get the less I understand what they’re saying. I hear the words and I know they are words, but when strung together and spoken, they just don’t make sense.
In the past, I’ve helped you de-code what in tarnation...
Jewish News Syndicate
• Published February 23, 2024
“The New Look,” a new TV program on the streaming service Apple+, explores World War II decisions made by founders of clothing lines that are worth billions today. The show dramatizes the lives of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel—both French-born—the...
The “Pollard Affair,” as it came to be known, was one of the most significant upheavals in the history of American-Israeli government relations. An American Jewish U.S. intelligence officer with a single-minded ambition to save Israel, Jonathan Pollard...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published February 21, 2024
Iconic fashion designer Michael Kors, who is Jewish, is coming to St. Louis this spring for St. Louis Fashion Fund’s “Speaking of Fashion” series in partnership with Washington University and Caleres. The speaker series is free and...
(JTA) — Rob Reiner, best known for his acting role in the 1970s sitcom “All in the Family” and for directing a series of beloved comedies — including “This is Spinal Tap,” “The Princess Bride” and “When Harry Met Sally”...
