(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed to breathe life into a tired genre like the Jewish family saga. “I want the...

Pre-COVID, local Jewish musician Will Soll regularly hosted an intimate mid-day New Year’s Eve gathering in his home on Dec. 31. The party and communal concert was dubbed “New Year’s Eve in Tel Aviv” because it was held at 4 p.m. central, exactly...

Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents, whom I affectionately named Mama and Baba. Both would use Yiddish...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

(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...

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,...