(JTA) — Songwriter Burt Bacharach,  who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a  string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including “Alfie” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” — died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles....

You darling readers have given me some wonderful feedback on this column, and I appreciate it. I especially love when you think I’m funny. Actually, I think my friends are way funnier than me. So I thought I’d share a couple of their stories to prove...

The perhaps unlikely combination of a Jewish Israeli director adapting a Palestinian Israeli’s bestselling novel yielded a film so good that it was named best picture (and won other awards) at the 2021 Ophir Awards (the Israeli Oscars) and became Israel’s...

Recently, I brought my 11-year-old daughter with me along with community rabbis, reverends, members of PROMO (which advocates for LGBTQ rights) and allies of all ages to testify in Jefferson City against Senate Bill 42.  This bill would cause insurmountable...

J Associates will hold its third annual Fabulous Feud Live fundraiser on Saturday, March 4 at the Pageant. In the same spirit as the popular television game show “Family Feud,” Fabulous Feud Live features families from the community who will team...

There are many special and unique art programs in our city. I’d like to highlight three that I believe are making positive changes. Things don’t happen overnight, but I’ve been around long enough to see some wonderful change coming from the work...

Super Bowl commercials can range from aspirational to flavor-blasted. There are usually chest-thumping displays of patriotism, weepy spots involving Clydesdales and audience-submitted Doritos short films. But could they also hold a clue to eternal youth? Two...

When Sol Braverman founded the Newark Nut Company in 1929, he had one goal in mind: to support his immigrant Polish-Jewish family. He did that by selling nuts, dried fruit, eggs, cheese, bread, and pantry essentials from his modest shop on Newark, New...

(JTA) — It’s “ridiculous” to doubt that Jews like money, popular podcaster Joe Rogan said on his show on Saturday. Rogan was discussing the 2019 tweet by Rep. Ilhan Oman in which she wrote that pro-Israel votes in Congress were “all about...

An ambitious initiative aims to help train and place 500 young Jewish leaders across North America by 2027. The program is being developed by Judaism Alive, a nonprofit organization that includes Jewish Rock Radio, JKids Radio, Jewish Star and Songleader...

The Songleader Boot Camp (SLBC) National Conference returns to St. Louis on Feb. 19 for its first in-person gathering since 2020. The leadership training gathering for Jewish clergy, educators, camp staff and song leaders was presented as a virtual conference...

(JTA) — On a couple of occasions in Julian Schlossberg’s early life, he found himself in parts of the United States where some people he talked to had never met a Jewish person. The first was a stint in the Army, the second was while selling movies...