(JTA) — Anyone who has visited an Israeli beach is likely familiar with the popular beach paddle game known as matkot.
For millions of TV viewers and a live audience of 1,400 at NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” a trio of Israeli performers who...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published July 31, 2023
Jewish comedian and entertainer Paul Reubens has died at the age of 70, after battling cancer. His estate announced his passing on his official Instagram page Monday.
In the post, the estate wrote, "Last night we said farewell to Paul Reubens, an iconic...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 28, 2023
St. Louis hasn’t hosted a major St. Louis summer music festival in Forest Park since the final Loufest in 2017. This year, on August 26 and 27, that will change with the inaugural Evolution Festival. The event will bring together headliners The Black...
(JTA) — According to the Jewish Virtual Library, 550,000 Jews served in the United States armed forces during World War II. There were 38,338 Jewish casualties, while 26,000 Jewish soldiers “received citations for valor and merit.”
But in high-profile...
(JNS) -- “So shines a good deed in a weary world,” Gene Wilder whispered at the climax of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” the first of many film adaptations in a book collection that has now become canonical for generations of young readers.
The...
Zia Saylor, Jewish Women’s Archive
• Published July 25, 2023
This story was originally published on JWA.com
This summer, my beach reads have taken a turn for the more picturesque. Tired after years of reading multiple books a semester in college, the text blurring as I highlighted yet another 100-page reading...
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...
