If you were a kitchen appliance, what would you be and why?” my manager asked. It was mid-Monday morning, usually one of the slowest times at the cafe where we worked, and Bob loved to probe the depths of our souls during slow moments. “Cuisinart,”...

Are Trump’s most rabid supporters getting into Jewish mysticism? If a new viral clip from “The Daily Show” is any indication, the answer appears to be yes. In the clip, a woman in a flower crown at a MAGA rally in Wisconsin tells “Daily...

For a generation of Americans, Gertrude Berg embodied Jewish motherhood in a series of radio, television, stage, and film performances. She is best remembered as the creative force behind the Goldbergs, a fictitious Jewish family who lived in an...

A gathering of more than 2,000 celebrated Jewish food, music and culture on August 14 at the Foundry Arts Centre in St. Charles. The Chabad Jewish Center of St. Charles County sponsored the second annual St. Charles Jewish Festival. Musical highlights...

(JTA) — On Netflix’s “My Unorthodox Life,” both Julia Haart and her older daughter Batsheva said they regretted getting married as teenagers, the norm in their Orthodox Jewish community. So when the family landed a spot on “Celebrity Family...

Confident of the positive impact Jewish early childhood centers (ECC) can have on children, their parents and the St. Louis Jewish community, Jewish Federation invested $125,000 last August into a collaborative initiative for all 10 of the community’s...

Spoiler alert: This piece contains plot details about HBO’s “The Rehearsal,” including extensive details about Episode 5, “Apocalypto,” which first aired Aug. 12, 2022. (JTA) — Nathan Fielder has always been open about his Jewish identity...

(New York Jewish Week) — “How long is this interview going to be? My agent said this was going to be brief,” comedian Jessica Kirson says, greeting a New York Jewish Week reporter.  “I’m constantly complaining,” she added by way of explanation.  While...

You may want to move quickly on getting your tickets for this upcoming event because appearances by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Twitty are known to sell out quickly. Twitty, who released a book of recipes and essays that fuses Jewish and...

The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis (TWStL) returns for its seventh year, giving center stage to a newly reimagined and sensual Fellini-esque production of William’s romantic Sicilian love story The Rose Tattoo, directed by David Kaplan and performed...

There’s a song kids sing at Jewish summer camp with the lyrics, “Wherever you go, there’s always someone Jewish.” My husband and I lived that last week when we traveled to San Diego, where both kids played in the JCC Maccabi Games. Of course,...