Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 27, 2022
Dear Reader,
I'm a true sucker for a great love story and I'm a firm believer in the concept of beshert, the Yiddish word that means “destined” or “fated.” It can be used to describe all kinds of lucky or fortuitous situations, not just romantic...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 27, 2022
Two Jewish entrepreneurs from Illinois who are the clever minds behind the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, are now ready to immortalize a St. Louis icon with its own bobblehead.
To celebrate the 57th anniversary of the completion of the...
(JTA) — After a years-long battle to reacquire two paintings the Nazis stole from their ancestor before he became one of their early victims, the descendants of Austrian Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum will auction the Egon Schiele works off...
(JTA) – Trish Adlesic was visiting her father in Pittsburgh on the day a gunman walked into the city’s Tree of Life synagogue building and murdered 11 people.
Almost immediately, the director started filming her surroundings with the aim of producing...
(New York Jewish Week) – A new trailer for the FX miniseries “Fleishman Is in Trouble” — based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel and set on a very Jewish Upper West Side — dropped Tuesday.
Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Adam Brody...
JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTA
• Published October 25, 2022
(JTA) — A Jewish educational consultant who was working for Kanye West’s secretive private Christian school resigned from her post earlier this month in the wake of the rapper’s antisemitic comments.
Tamar Andrews, who is also the director of...
Caleb Guedes-Reed, JTA
• Published October 25, 2022
(JTA) — Two weeks ago, Ariel Elias, then a little-known standup comedian performing at a club in New Jersey, had a beer thrown at her head from a group of Trump-supporting hecklers who discovered she voted for Joe Biden. After the beer smashed against...
