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Tucker Carlson’s senior producer repeatedly made antisemitic comments to Jewish staffers, lawsuit claims

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished March 21, 2023

| UPDATE: Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox — will veiled antisemitism and the Great Replacement Theory go with him? A Jewish producer at Fox News filed a lawsuit against the network Monday that claims the network pressured her to provide deceptive...

Photo by John Gitchoff

The audience is part of the show in the latest from New Jewish Theatre

BY GERRY KOWARSKY, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished March 20, 2023

Actor Will Bonfiglio and director Ellie Schwetye are together again at the New Jewish Theatre. They have scored another triumph in “Every Brilliant Thing,” a one-act, one-actor show. In 2019, Schwetye directed Bonfiglio in “Fully Committed.”...

How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ broke taboos around interfaith marriage

How Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ broke taboos around interfaith marriage

Emily Schneider, JTAPublished March 20, 2023

(JTA) — When Judy Blume’s young adult novel “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” appeared in 1970, intermarried families were a small segment of the American Jewish population. Perhaps 17% of Jews were married to someone who wasn’t Jewish;...

What goes on in the Twitter shadows.

Antisemitism on Twitter has more than doubled since Elon Musk took over the platform – new research

Carl Miller, King's College LondonPublished March 20, 2023

In the days after Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, the social media platform saw a “surge in hateful conduct,” which its then safety chief put down to a “focused, short-term trolling campaign.” New research suggests that when it comes...

Susan Sherman, Phyllis Langsdorf to talk STL fashion on "Coffee Talk with SnL"

Susan Sherman, Phyllis Langsdorf to talk STL fashion on “Coffee Talk with SnL”

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 19, 2023

Tuesday, March 21 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...

One of many paintings of the story of Batsheva and David, titled Bathsheba at the Bath, from 1724. by Sebastiano Ricci

Why the biblical story of David and Batsheva keeps trending on Twitter

Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished March 15, 2023

You know that line in Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” about seeing a beautiful woman bathing on the roof? He was referencing the biblical story of David and Batsheva. Cohen got a few details wrong — David was the one on the roof, actually — but...

Tal Patalon is the host of "A Matter of Life and Death," an English-language podcast from Israel's Maccabi Healthcare Services.(Asaf Brenner)

This unusual Israeli podcast covers everything from sentient AI to extending the human lifespan

BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND, JTAPublished March 14, 2023

If an alien spacecraft landed in Prof. Avi Loeb’s backyard tomorrow, he would readily step on, leave his family behind and take off to discover the great beyond. Obviously, he’d be giving up a lot, but it’s for an essential cause, he says: Humans...

Author of new book on Pope’s silence during Holocaust coming to STL

Author of new book on Pope’s silence during Holocaust coming to STL

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 14, 2023

In late October 1941, a bishop in Slovakia wrote to Pope Pius XII  to alert him that the country’s Jews “are simply being shot, systematically murdered, without distinction of sex or age.” This was the first credible account of the pope learning...

Neil Davis and George Martin. Image courtesy of Neil Davis.

“Talking Beatles” comes from lifelong love for the band and brushes with Beatles royalty

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 14, 2023

The Beatles are generally regarded as the single most important rock band of all time. Aside from writing so many great songs, the Fab Four came to define and influence pop culture for more than six decades. The Beatles are also iconic in how they affected...

Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha Van Leer pose at the opening night of the musical "Between The Lines," July 11, 2022 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/Getty Images)

Florida school bans Holocaust novel by Jodi Picoult, other Jewish authors too

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished March 13, 2023

(JTA) – A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s circulation last month, in the latest example of books with Jewish themes getting swept up amid a...

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David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in Nine PBS

Linda Buchwald, JTAPublished March 13, 2023

(JTA) — As a Roman Catholic in Warsaw during World War II, Jan Karski could easily have ignored the horrors unfolding behind the walls of the Jewish ghetto. Instead, as a member of the Polish Resistance, he donned a yellow Star of David and infiltrated...

History of the World: Part Who?

History of the World: Part Who?

BY THE BAGELS, Special To The Jewish LightPublished March 13, 2023

Greet this week’s newy and Jewy moments as we break down the pointless “Maisel” non-trailer; discuss the ADL’s new Entertainment Leadership Council; consider the Hallmark movie “Made for Each Other” (which features a golem, naturally); and...

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