By Simi Horwitz, The Forward
• Published August 10, 2022
Director-composer Stephen Edwards says he is drawn to “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” So, when he came across the virtually unknown story of “Syndrome K” and the Italian doctors who concocted this wholly invented disease in order...
By Mervyn Rothstein, The Forward
• Published August 10, 2022
“The older I get, the more Jewish I get,” the longtime television producer, comedy writer and in his more recent years, playwright Ed. Weinberger said. “I do not practice Judaism in any way, except that I am a Jew and know that I am a Jew, and I...
By Seth Rogovoy, The Forward
• Published August 8, 2022
Olivia Newton-John, the British Australian pop star who dominated the pop culture of the late 1970s and 1980s, has died after repeated treatments for cancer, her husband announced Monday, on Facebook. She was 73.
The Secret Jewish History of Olivia...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 8, 2022
Most of us have said it at one time or another in our lives: "We should start a band."
For Betsy Cytron, the question didn't pop into her mind until after a long, wonderful career as a public school band director in Missouri and Illinois. She...
AMY FENSTER BROWN, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published August 7, 2022
In a previous column I created an awards ceremony for moms, but we shouldn’t get all the attention. Dads deserve to be the butt of the joke … I mean, dads deserve praise, too. They should be awarded for all they do, especially when it’s ridiculous...
(JNS) -- “Shtisel,” in my opinion, is the best Jewish show ever made. It is written in such a way that you care about each and every character. The second-most important relationship is between Akiva and his father, Shulem, played masterfully by the...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published August 7, 2022
(JTA) — Ah, summertime. A season to take a plunge in a mountain lake, read a trashy novel on the beach and reenact a historical tragedy through a month-long pageant of self-denial and fasting.
Wait, what?
If you don’t associate summer with...
(JTA) — The 1981 winner of Peru’s competition of Israel’s International Bible Contest did not come from among the country’s many devoted Christians nor from Lima’s elite Jewish school.
Instead, the top prize went to Victor Chico, a self-taught...
(JTA) — The flames of the “Jewface” debate have been fanned for years, but the conversation hit a new level of prominence last fall.
Kathryn Hahn’s casting as the outspokenly Jewish comedy pioneer Joan Rivers in a TV series (which was eventually...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 4, 2022
When Lenny Mink was a high school student at Parkway Central in the late 1980s, he would sneak into the school's empty, dark theater and just sit. There was just something about the peaceful stage that gave Mink a feeling of possibility -- the possibility...
(JTA) – Melissa Bank, whose stories of flawed, funny Jewish heroines searching for love and fulfillment won over readers’ hearts around the world, died Tuesday at age 61 of lung cancer.
Bank’s publisher, Penguin, confirmed her death in a statement....
