(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...
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...
