Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 14, 2022
The Muny, St. Louis' largest outdoor musical theater venue, is kicking off its seven-show lineup for summer 2023 with the story of legendary Jewish songwriter-singer, Carole King.
Beautiful- The Carole King Musical tells the inspiring true story of...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 14, 2022
In 1952, a 5-year-old Sammy Fabelman (or was it Steven Spielberg) saw a train crash.
His parents both assured him it wasn’t real. His father, an engineer, explained it by describing the mechanics of a film projector. His mother, a free spirit and would-be...
Hazzan Sharon Nathanson, backed by a band, was the featured performer at Congregation B’nai Amoona on Sunday, November 13 to celebrate her 16th year serving the congregation.
The concert was billed as Cantor Sharon Nathanson’s Sweet 16+ concert...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 13, 2022
In Saturday’s “SNL” monologue, Dave Chappelle offered a canny pro-tip to Kanye West.
Trotting out a variation on George Carlin’s “Seven Words,” the comedian said there are “two words in the English language that you should never say...
By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 13, 2022
(JTA) — Hosting “Saturday Night Live” for the first time since he faced widespread criticism about jokes ridiculing transgender people, comedian Dave Chappelle opened the show with a lengthy monologue about … Jews — namely, the controversy surrounding...
Marion Fischel, Israel21c
• Published November 10, 2022
Where can you travel through 5,000 years of history in 10 stops? Jerusalem, the city that was proclaimed the capital of the Kingdom of Judea in 1,000 BCE and is the capital of Israel today.
In addition to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority’s City...
(New York Jewish Week) — In “The Calling,” a new miniseries streaming on Peacock, a Jewish NYPD detective fights crime and solves mysteries by letting his Jewishness lead the way.
Jeff Wilbusch plays Avraham Avraham, a detective whose Judaism is...
(JTA) — There’s a good chance that right now, Nathan Steuer is playing, or thinking about playing, Magic: The Gathering. The trading card game, which Steuer used to play with friends at Jewish summer camp, has become the 20-year-old Berkeley native’s...
DIANA BLETTER, Israel21c.org
• Published November 10, 2022
The Art Laboratory for Future Ecologies, an innovative eco-art center, will soon get under construction in Israel’s Arava Desert.
The future center’s founder, Galit Eilat, said the goal is teach people about sustainability and protecting natural...
By Seth Rogovoy, The Forward
• Published November 10, 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By Bono
Knopf, 577 pages, $34
Bono would like you to know who he sat with over the years.
“I am sitting on Harry Belafonte’s bed.”
“We’re sitting with Rupert Murdoch …”
“I was sitting in Renards...
ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published November 10, 2022
“Bibi: My Story” by Benjamin Netanyahu, Simon & Schuster, 724 pages, $35
Mark Twain’s famous response to the premature publication of his obituary — “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” accurately describes the political...
(JTA) — Two years ago, a poll on Twitter tried to settle once and for all how to refer to the corner of the social media platform where Jews conversed. “Jwitter” got two thirds of the 525 votes, with the rest falling to “Jtwitter.”
Whatever...
