By Amy Burger, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 15, 2023
I was just a year old when Judy Blume’s classic young adult novel “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” was published in 1970, long before YA Fiction was even considered a genre. By the time I hit puberty myself, around 1982, that seminal book,...
(JTA) – The sportswear giant Adidas has decided to sell off its remaining inventory of sneakers from Kanye West’s Yeezy brand and donate the proceeds to charity.
The decision comes roughly seven months after Adidas cut ties with West in the face...
(JTA) — A historian leafing through files in an archive discovered how a Jewish organization helped bring down an influential far-right extremist movement in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s by going undercover and acting as self-appointed...
(JTA) — Jason Schwartzman is starring as a cantor who takes on an adult bat mitzvah student, played by veteran actress Carol Kane, in an upcoming comedy film.
Shooting for “Between the Temples,” a self-described “anxious comedy,” has already...
(JTA) – “Oppenheimer,” the hotly-anticipated Christopher Nolan biopic about the Jewish nuclear physicist who developed the atomic bomb, will include another familiar Jewish face when it opens this summer: Albert Einstein.
A new trailer for the...
Like a lot of Jewish girls who came of age in the late 1960s and ’70s, I wanted nothing to do with my naturally curly/wavy/frizzy hair, so I ironed it to make it flat or straight. When at age 14, my mother saw what I was up to, she freaked and hid the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 10, 2023
Brothers Lazaroff’s long-awaited ninth full-length album, "Memphis," which was recorded in one day at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, is set to debut Thursday night (May 11) with a special show, during which the entire album will be performed....
There’s something about the Bridgerton family that reminds Julia Quinn of her own. Or should we say, the characters she created remind Julie Pottinger (born Cotler) — the author best known by her pen name and the initials JQ — of her animated and...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published May 9, 2023
Father and son Max and Josh Feldman have a complicated relationship. Max is a loving father, ruthless businessman and Josh’s boss. The Feldmans are a Jewish St. Louis family with a successful shoe business known as Fratelli Massimo. They and the business...
(JNS) Before he starred as the lead in the hit 1970s’ sitcom “Barney Miller,” Hal Linden was just a regular kid growing up in the Bronx, N.Y. The son of Lithuanian immigrants, Linden’s childhood in the 1930s and “40s consisted of going to soccer...
(JTA) — “Hi my name is Miriam,” the video begins. “I’m an Orthodox Jew, and I share what my life is like.” So opens a typical TikTok post from Miriam Ezagui, a 37-year-old Brooklyn-based labor and delivery nurse who has amassed 1.6 million...
