By Evelyn Frick, Hey Alma!
• Published September 22, 2022
After the success of Nick Kroll’s “Big Mouth,” its spinoff show “Human Resources,” “The Oh, Hello Show” with John Mulaney and his most recent project, getting kissed on the mouth by Harry Styles, it can be hard to remember that Kroll...
(New York Jewish Week) – The Lower East Side’s most famous set of Jewish sisters — Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertrude — may soon become TV stars: “All-of-a-Kind Family,” Sydney Taylor’s award-winning 1951 book, is being developed...
(JTA) — In 2008, Adam Sandler gave Hollywood one of its most memorable Israeli characters ever: the Zohan, an Israeli Defense Forces operative with superhuman abilities who leaves the anti-terrorism grind to become a hairdresser in New York. “You...
By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org
• Published September 21, 2022
Babe Ruth is remembered for his home runs on the field and his hot dog binges and other peccadilloes off the field. But as the American public is about to discover, there was another Babe Ruth—one who went to bat for women and minorities, including...
By ELI GOTTLIEB, JTA
• Published September 21, 2022
(JTA) — “Hey Allies: Please don’t schedule meetings or events on the Jewish holidays!” So says a meme that has circulated widely before about the dates for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah.
Seems like a pretty harmless and...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 21, 2022
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I'm now actually glad PBS put a one-day delay between Episodes 1 and 2 of Ken Burns’ “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” I needed a good day to process all that happened in the first two hours of the three-part, six-hour...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2022
Daryl Rothman grew up in Olivette loving stories and the books they came in. Like any young child, he loved when his parents would read books to him. And while Rothman's parents did read him "Where the Wild Things Are," and "The Giving Tree," and other...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2022
In watching Episode 1 of Ken Burns' documentary series “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” on PBS, St. Louis viewers received a special treat. One of our own was prominently included in the documentary.
At approximately 35 minutes in, we meet Gunther...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 19, 2022
In Monday's Morning Light email, I opened my heart and my belly to you all, admitting that I'm just not into this whole honey cake phenomenon. Many of you have sent in messages of support. One reader, Rivka Dushoff-Tobin, who is the proud grandmother...
Dan Buffa and Jordan Palmer
• Published September 16, 2022
Is it better to fight back and avenge or take the higher road when dealing with bullies? An ageless question that Netflix’s hit series, “Cobra Kai,” bases the weight of its story upon. The show itself, which just debuted its fifth season this week,...
On Saturday, Sept. 24 from 12:30-3 p.m., Dance the Vote STL will present “Midterms Matter, “a free, nonpartisan, family friendly, all-inclusive event in front of the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park to promote voter awareness in advance of the...
