Earlier this summer in Boston, Carey Perloff directed the first “homegrown” production of “The Lehman Trilogy,” a British import that won the 2022 Tony Award for best play. Now she’s directing that production here, where it will open the 2023-24...

After fighting multiple sclerosis for a decade, the disease took the life of 67-year-old Jewish film and television actress Arleen Sorkin on Aug. 24. Playing Calliope Jones Bradford in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Sorkin served as...

Midway through his 1992 bar mitzvah at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 13-year-old Danny Jacobs addressed the congregation. “I’ve always wondered what it would be like to talk to G-d,” he began, cueing his friend Josh Friedman, who was sitting at...

(JNS) -- A licensed marriage and family therapist based in Los Angeles, Rachel Bernstein specializes in family and relationship counseling; children and parents in need of emotional support and coping skills; and cult intervention and re-acclimation. On...

Multi-millionaire ‍biotech ‍engineer ‍and ‍asset ‍manager ‍Vivek ‍Ramaswamy ‍is ‍running ‍for ‍the ‍Republican ‍nomination ‍for ‍President. ‍ He...

In the new film “Golda,” Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first female prime minister, who faced difficult decisions in 1973 when Israel fought Arab armies in both the Sinai and Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War. Meir, known as...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The director of Netflix’s new coming-of-age comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has a confession...

For many students in our area, school is back in session. My older son is now a senior in high school. A senior! I’m going to die. I’m going to cry, then throw up, then die, then cry some more, then run to the bathroom, then die again, and then cry....

(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League agrees with Leonard Bernstein’s family: Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in the upcoming “Maestro” biopic is not an antisemitic portrayal of the celebrated Jewish conductor. “Throughout history, Jews were...

(JNS) -- The Torah repeatedly notes the importance of “welcoming the stranger.” That’s just what Jewish actress Mila Kunis and her Kabbalah-practicing actor-husband Ashton Kutcher plan to do. Kutcher told his 5.2 million Instagram followers last...

Jewish music legend Bob Dylan, 82, is bringing his "Rough and Rowdy Ways" tour to St. Louis this fall. The Stifel Theatre will host one of the 17 shows on the tour on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, Aug. 25, at 10 a.m. Missouri...

Imagine keeping a secret for 35 years. Now imagine, through a twist of fate and modern science, that secret is revealed to the persons you most feared knowing it. Imagine what happens to your life – and to the lives of those around you – in the wake...