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Jewish Pop Culture

Roger Waters in Berlin, May 23, 2023.

Roger Waters dresses as SS officer at concert

Published May 24, 2023

(May 24, 2023 / JNS) During a Berlin concert on Wednesday, former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters likened Anne Frank to Shireen Abu Aqleh, the Al Jazeera journalist who died during a shootout between IDF soldiers and Palestinian terrorists. Waters also...

The 2023 St. Louis Summer Arts Guide

The 2023 St. Louis Summer Arts Guide

PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished May 24, 2023

Summer is the perfect season to immerse yourself in the arts, which enrich the lives of one and all. On tap between now and late September are more than 60 cultural events, including operas, art fairs, concerts in many a genre, a much-loved circus,...

Amy Fenster Brown and the TV-inspired decor in her home office.

What’s TV good for? Learning life lessons, of course

By Amy Fenster Brown, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 24, 2023

I love television so much that it inspired my home office décor, as you can see from this photo. Television can simultaneously be a huge waste of time, a way to stay informed, and educational, depending on what you’re watching.  Which category do...

Yvette Drury Dubinsky returns to St. Louis for latest art exhibition

Yvette Drury Dubinsky returns to St. Louis for latest art exhibition

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 23, 2023

When Yvette Drury Dubinsky's sixth-grade teacher excused her from all classes and told her to "go to the back of the room and just draw and paint," she knew art would be a big part of her life. Now, "Traveling," an exhibition of her newest work, is on...

Could Steven Spielberg be bringing ‘Leopoldstadt,’ to television?

Gabe FriedmanPublished May 23, 2023

(JTA) — Tom Stoppard’s Holocaust play “Leopoldstadt” could get a TV series adaptation — with the help of Steven Spielberg. Deadline reported Monday that Spielberg and his Amblin production company are shopping the idea of a limited series....

Lag b’Omer celebrants lit traditional bonfires despite warnings by the fire department citing temperatures in the 90s and dryness. (Ben Sales)

Current Events Trivia: Lag B’Omer bonfire in London

MARK ZIMMERMAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished May 22, 2023

Lag B’Omer was celebrated earlier this month in Jewish communities around the world. Many synagogues hosted picnics and bonfires to mark the joyous holiday that falls on the 33rd day of the otherwise mournful 49-day Omer period between Passover and...

Martin Amis

As author Martin Amis died, a movie of his Holocaust novel ‘Zone of Interest’ wowed at Cannes

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished May 22, 2023

(JTA) – The death of Martin Amis, the prolific British author, came just as a film adaptation of one of his Holocaust novels premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival. Amis, who died on Friday of esophageal cancer at the age of 73, was...

Coffee Talk for May features Amy Fenster Brown and her sidekick Jordan Palmer   

Coffee Talk for May features Amy Fenster Brown and her sidekick Jordan Palmer   

Published May 19, 2023

Tuesday, May 23 marks another round of “Coffee Talk with SnL,” the nearly three-year-old gathering of local St. Louis voices hosted by National Council of Jewish Women St. Louis’ Past President, Susan Katzman, and Vice President of Membership, Lisa...

The new book "Dyed in Crimson" shares the story of Harvard football captain and coach Arnold Horween, right, shown here with his brother Ralph. (Book cover courtesy of Zev Eleff, Horween photo via Wikimedia Commons)

How this unsung Jewish football hero changed all American sports

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished May 16, 2023

(JTA) — Decades before Sandy Koufax sat out the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, and 18 years before Greenberg chased Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in the late 1930s, a college athlete made some overlooked...

Magda Teter’s new book explores how “white European Christians branded both Jews and people of color with ‘badges of servitude’ and inferiority.” (Chuck Fishman)

Author finds common root for antisemitism and racism is ‘Christian supremacy’ 

Andrew Silow-CarrollPublished May 15, 2023

(JTA) — Magda Teter’s new book, “Christian Supremacy,” begins in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11, 2017. Hundreds of white nationalist neo-Nazis who ostensibly gathered to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E....

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, Gen. Rehavam Ze’evi (right) and Gen. Uzi Narkiss walk through the Old City of Jerusalem on July 6, 1967. Photo: Ilan Bruner/Government Press Office (GPO)

New film ‘Jerusalem 67’ will chronicle Israel’s Six-Day War victory

Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished May 15, 2023

(JTA) — A high-profile movie project depicting Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War could star “Jane the Virgin” actress Yael Grobglas. Oded Raz — known for directing the Israeli box office hit “Maktub,” which now streams on Netflix...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

Current Events Trivia: Rejected Florida textbooks

Mark Zimmerman, Special To The Jewish LightPublished May 15, 2023

Recently, the ‍Florida ‍Department ‍of ‍Education ‍announced ‍that ‍they ‍had ‍rejected ‍more ‍than ‍30 ‍social ‍studies ‍textbooks ‍and ‍worked...

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