Get out of the heat this weekend and refresh your soul with the celebration of song. That's what's on tap this Saturday, July 29th at 7 p.m. at MaTovu in South St. Louis.
"Shira Lishma" which is Hebrew for "Singing for singing's sake" is a special...
Poet and children’s book author Mary Ann Hoberman, whose own childhood in a “very loud, raucous, opinionated” Jewish household inspired the family themes that infused her books, died on July 7 at her home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 92.
By Talya Zax, Mira Fox, PJ Grisar, Irene Katz Connelly, The Forward
• Published July 24, 2023
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As promotional materials have declared for months on end: Barbie is everything.
And as the much-hyped new movie Barbie...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 24, 2023
Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is a breathtaking epic about the rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Jewish-American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb," who led the Manhattan Project, the World War II secret U.S....
Every year we invite Elijah to our Passover seders, setting out a glass of wine to welcome him upon arrival. The guy never shows up. Rude. But you know who shows up uninvited all the time? Anxiety. So rude.
It just pops in like a nosy neighbor who...
By Dan Epstein, The Forward
• Published July 23, 2023
The legendary Tony Bennett, who died July 21 at the age of 96, would have earned a place in Jewish history even if he’d helped to liberate the Kaufering concentration camp at the close of World War II, as he did when he was better known as US Army infantryman...
(JTA) — I’ve been teaching a virtual class on Jewish humor through our partner site, My Jewish Learning. I share classic jokes and bits and then discuss what they say about both the Jews who tell them and the Jewish audiences that enjoy them.
We...
(JTA) — While “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” have hogged the headlines, an unlikelier blockbuster swept the box office this month: “Sound of Freedom,” a thriller lauded by QAnon conspiracy theorists and high-profile Republicans.
It also...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 21, 2023
Jewish-American singer Matisyahu and G. Love & Special Sauce are pairing up for a series of 2023 summer tour dates that will include a stop here in St. Louis on Saturday, August 5 at The Factory in Chesterfield. Purchase tickets here.
Who is Matisyahu?
Matisyahu’s...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 18, 2023
I remember the first time I was ever sent to the principal's office. It happened during Sunday school at Congregation Temple Israel in the late 1970s. The lesson that Sunday was the story of Jonah. Long story short, Jonah disobeys G-d, hops a ship,...
(JTA) — In the second season of “The Nanny,” the sitcom she wrote and starred in, Fran Drescher’s character, Fran Fine, refuses to enter a hotel where the busboys are striking.
“I’m sorry, but the Fines don’t cross picket lines,” she...
(JTA) — The announcement this week that Katerina McCrimmon would star as Fanny Brice in the national tour of “Funny Girl,” the Broadway musical about a trailblazing Jewish comedian, has ignited criticism from some Jewish actors who say the role...
