Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 15, 2022
You never know what St. Louis native, Clayton High School grad and reality TV icon Andy Cohen will do next.
Deadline.com is reporting that Cohen, the host of "Watch What Happens Live" and “Real Housewives” executive producer, announced that...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 15, 2022
Few musical styles bring as much energy to the stage as klezmer, a genre with Eastern European Jewish roots. Klezmer blends jazz with Greek and Balkan melodies to create a unique sound that usually includes a fiddle, clarinet and accordion.
On Sept....
Add this ancient city to your bucket list. Acre, also known as Akko or Akka, is one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites, and it is no wonder.
The massive stone walls surrounding the city are set above the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
Acre...
“Your dog is turning 13? You have to throw him a bark mitzvah!”
With the frequency of this exclamation, I had assumed there would be online how-to guides aplenty. And there certainly is delightful content for canine party games and plushie...
By Caren Lissner, Kveller
• Published September 15, 2022
Popular Jewish American young adult author Judy Blume turned 84 in February, a whopping 52 years after she published her classic novel about adolescence, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (1970). The day after her 84th birthday on February...
When New York granted university status last February to what had been known until this year as Touro College, it signaled a milestone for what has become America’s largest Jewish-sponsored educational institution.
Touro University, now celebrating...
This Sunday, the first installment of Ken Burns’ documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” is set to air on Nine PBS locally from 7 to 9 p.m. The three-part, six-hour series focuses on “America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of...
(JTA) — Eugene Ginter was 12 days shy of his sixth birthday when he was liberated from Auschwitz in January 1945. Emaciated and alone, Ginter landed first in a hospital and then in an orphanage in Krakow, the Polish city where he was born. Several...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published September 13, 2022
Mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 18, for not one but two noteworthy events.
The first, returning after a three-year delay because of COVID, is the Jewish arts and culture festival, Sababa, featuring dozens of visual artists, kid-friendly musical...
(JTA) — When I spoke recently at a conference on fighting antisemitism, I offered up one practical suggestion that might have surprised attendees: “I hope you’ll watch ‘Mo’ on Netflix.”
I was on a panel called “Combating Hate Through Coalition...
(JTA) – Julia Garner and Brett Goldstein were the big Jewish Emmy winners Monday night, as both actors took home statuettes on television’s starriest night.
Garner scored her third win for best supporting actress in a drama for her role on Netflix’s...
