(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series.
“Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 25, 2022
Steven Spielberg looks back on his childhood, and when he fell in love with moviemaking, as well as his parents' marriage, in the semi-autobiographical "The Fabelmans." The story is by turns funny, touching and heartbreaking, as the son grows up, and...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 21, 2022
Dear Reader,
In the late 1970s, Spoede School let out at exactly 3:30 p.m. We would line up in the back and board our school buses for the ride home. I was on Bus #3, and Mr. Matt was our bus driver. Matt knew that he had exactly 30 minutes to get...
(JNS) Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96.
Family members did not provide a cause of death.
Cleary, who played...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published November 21, 2022
Sometimes the stars really do align.
They certainly did when Jonathan Ornstein found himself in St. Louis recently to speak at the 32nd annual World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors and of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D) conference...
LONDON (JTA) — David Baddiel, a comedian-turned-activist against antisemitism who calls himself “one of the U.K.’s very few famous Jews,” was holding court in the basement of one of Britain’s best-known TV studios.
As a reporter headed...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published November 20, 2022
As hard as I try, there is no way to describe Judith Garfinkel’s command over her young charges at the St. Louis Art Museum other than to say she had them eating out of her hand.
There she was, all 5 feet, 105 pounds of her, impeccably dressed, red...
(New York Jewish Week) — “You never know how people are going to respond,” says Jewish comedian Ari Shaffir, referring to his new standup special, “Jew,” which has more than 3 million views (and counting) on YouTube.
The self-released,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 17, 2022
The Anti-Defamation League, Heartland, which provides services to Southern Illinois, Missouri, and Eastern Kansas is partnering with the Jewish Community Center of St. Louis in response to some St. Louis area schools banning several Holocaust books,...
BY JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTA
• Published November 17, 2022
(JTA) — Prominent Jewish comedians have begun to weigh in on fellow comic Dave Chappelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue in which he joked about Jews running Hollywood.
The verdict from his peers has been mixed after Chappelle delivered a...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published November 17, 2022
(JTA) — One of two Jewish women tapped for the next season of a popular reality TV show has backed out, citing “a torrent of antisemitism” that she said she had received since the cast was announced.
Lizzy Savetsky, 37, had been set to appear...
(JTA) – Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” along with six books about the Holocaust geared toward young readers, are among the hundreds of books that a handful of school districts in Missouri have reportedly removed from their shelves since the start of...
