Katie Wallace, Junior, Parkway West High School
• Published February 22, 2023
Noah Levine, also known as Noah in the Open, is a talented 20-year-old Jewish singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas. In addition to making his own music, he has recently been touring with folk-pop singer Noah Kahan, who is also Jewish, as his lead guitarist....
The New Jewish Theatre received 10 nominations for work it produced in 2022, the St. Louis Theater Circle announced earlier this month. Every aspect of NJT’s work was recognized, from acting to directing to design.
The award winners will be presented...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 22, 2023
(JTA) — Members of a neo-Nazi group rallied Tuesday night outside the Broadway theater that is hosting “Parade,” a play about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia.
“It was definitely very ugly and scary, but [also] a wonderful reminder...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published February 21, 2023
Marc Maron knows there’s one topic he just can’t leave alone.
“I don’t know why — every show, there’s part of me that just wants to keep poking the Jew thing,” the stand-up comic says in his new HBO special, From Bleak to Dark....
Central Reform Congregation is teaming up with Left Bank Books for a special event to mark the release of a memoir written by Adina Talve-Goodman the daughter of Rabbis Susan Talve and Jim Goodman.
Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition...
(JNS) One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and God converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If God does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the book You wrote,” Moses says. In Exodus 32:34, God answers,...
This article first appeared in J. The Jewish News of Northern California
There is a Grammy Award for just about every kind of music — from pop to metal to New Age to Contemporary Christian — but there’s no Jewish category. Two Jewish musician...
(JTA) — When he was 13 years old, Josh Greene moved with his family to San Clemente, California, a city known as one of the best spots for surfing on the West Coast. Greene quickly fell in love with the sport, even holding his bar mitzvah party at a...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published February 19, 2023
Richard Belzer, the stand-up comedian who left an indelible mark on television in the character of Det. John Munch, a tough and versatile Jewish cop, has died at the age of 78. His death was first reported on social media by his friend, the actor...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published February 19, 2023
(JTA) — In the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby,” a 20-something young woman shows up at a house of Jewish mourners and gently offers her condolences. When she finds her mother in the kitchen, they chat about the funeral and the rugelach before the daughter...
St. Luke’s Hospital Mobile Mammography Unit will be at the J in Creve Coeur on Thursday, March 9 from 8:00am – 1:30pm. This service provides 3D screening mammograms for women 40 years of age and older.
Mammograms are one of the best tools doctors...
By Adam Kovac, The Forward
• Published February 15, 2023
The oldest known copy of the Hebrew Bible could soon be yours for the low price of $30 million.
The Codex Sassoon, which dates to around the year 900, is composed of all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, including the punctuation, vowels and accents that...
