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St. Louis Jewish Light

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St. Louis Jewish Light

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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...

Cassie Taylor, 10, Rabbi Amy Feder and her daughter Molly Alper, 11, discussing the Judy Blume classic.

St. Louis Jewish moms, daughters discuss Judy Blume classic, “Are you there God, It’s Me, Margaret”

By Amy Burger, Special to the Jewish LightPublished 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,...

The Adidas logo is pictured on a building in Manchester, July 14, 2022. (Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Adidas says it will sell off Yeezy shoes and donate proceeds to those ‘hurt by Kanye’s statements’

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished May 12, 2023

(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...

Matthew Dallek of George Washington University

The historian who uncovered the ADL’s secret plot against the far-right John Birch Society

Asaf Elia-ShalevPublished May 11, 2023

(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...

Jewish Trivia: The Ten Commandments in schools

Jewish Trivia: The Ten Commandments in schools

MARK D. ZIMMERMAN, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished May 11, 2023

The ‍Texas ‍Senate ‍recently ‍passed ‍a ‍bill ‍along ‍party ‍lines ‍with 17 ‍Republicans ‍voting ‍in ‍favor ‍and 12 ‍Democrats ‍opposed,...

Jason Schwartzman seen in New York City in 2019

Jason Schwartzman is a cantor and Carol Kane is his bat mitzvah student in comedy ‘Between the Temples’

Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished May 11, 2023

(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...

Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) in a scene from the trailer for the film"Oppenheimer," about the creation of the atomic bomb.

In ‘Oppenheimer’ trailer, the atomic bomb is born – and Einstein weeps

Published May 10, 2023

(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...

Wanted: Carole King doppelganger 

Wanted: Carole King doppelganger 

ELLEN FUTTERMAN, Editor-in-ChiefPublished May 10, 2023

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...

Memphis by Lazaroff Brothers

Brothers Lazaroff album and documentary release party sold out – here’s how to enjoy both

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished 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....

Julia Quinn

‘Bridgerton’ mastermind and ‘Queen Charlotte’ author also makes a mean matzo ball soup

By Stav ZivPublished May 9, 2023

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...

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