Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2022
In the early 1980s, older adults had far fewer resources. Community centers offered basics such as a hot lunch, simple crafts and bingo. It’s a much different world now, thanks in large part to Oasis, a national network that began 40 years ago in St....
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2022
If you’ve driven by the Morris & Ann Lazaroff Chabad Center on Delmar Boulevard in University City lately, you may have noticed the appearance of five iron sculptures just east of the building. The grassy area was previously a blank slate except...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 24, 2022
(JTA) — As images of the banner held above Interstate 405 in Los Angeles claiming “Kanye is right about the Jews” ricocheted around the internet this weekend, Jessica Seinfeld decided to take a stand.
A cookbook author and wife of comedian Jerry...
By Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 24, 2022
Stand-up comedian ILIZA SHLESINGER, 39, is on a roll. Last January, she and her husband, NOAH GALUTEN, had their first child. On Oct. 2, she was the winning contestant on “Celebrity Jeopardy” and will advance to the “winner playoffs.” Her...
(New York Jewish Week) — In a new political ad, Sen. Chuck Schumer gives constituents a Yiddish lesson while lauding some Democratic victories and decrying some Republican actions of the last term.
The thirty-second ad is titled “Yiddish Lessons...
(JTA) — Drivers heading south on the freeway in Los Angeles Saturday could view a Kanye West-related provocation by a vocal group of antisemites.
“Kanye was right about the Jews,” read a banner hung by members of the Goyim Defense League, a white...
(JTA) – Popular Jewish YouTube personality Ethan Klein was suspended from the platform for a week after he made a Holocaust joke about prominent right-wing Jewish pundit Ben Shapiro, escalating a war of words between two large Internet political factions...
JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTA
• Published October 21, 2022
(JTA) — Ramy Youssef expected some glitches during the production of the third season of “Ramy,” his award-winning show about an Muslim-American millennial that has, perhaps unexpectedly, resonated with many American Jews.
What he didn’t expect...
