By Barry Goldberg and Dan Epstein, The Forward
• Published July 25, 2022
The 1965 Newport Folk Festival started out like a wonderful dream for me — and then it became a nightmare, and then it became a wonderful dream again.
We rolled into Newport Thursday, the first day of the festival. For a lot of the guys in the Butterfield...
(JTA) — Children of the Sixties knew him for a beloved boy-band sitcom. Children of the Seventies knew him for upending Hollywood as they knew it.
Bob Rafelson, who died at his home in Aspen on Saturday at the age of 89 from lung cancer, was a Jewish...
Benjamin Ivry, The Foward
• Published July 25, 2022
The news that the ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, for Moe Howard from the Three Stooges has sold at auction for a hefty sum might provoke some reconsideration about the slapstick comedians’ Yiddishkeit.
Some Jews remain decidedly opposed...
By Leah Garrett, The Forward
• Published July 25, 2022
There’s a moment midway through “The Offer” when enraged film executive Robert Evans (Matthew Goode), a senior executive at Paramount Pictures, demands to know why Al Ruddy (Miles Teller), the producer of an as-yet-unknown movie called “The Godfather,”...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch will be the keynote author kicking off the 2022 St. Louis Jewish Book Festival. The Jewish Community Center will host the 44th annual book festival from Nov. 6-13.
At 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, Yovanovitch...
RICHARD H. WEISS, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 22, 2022
“The BOX” is a critically acclaimed play with a powerful message about solitary confinement as torture. The playwright is Sarah Shourd, a social justice activist and journalist, who suffered through 410 days of solitary in an Iranian prison in 2009-10.
When...
Attention youngsters who enjoy singing. Shir Emeth Youth Choir, which is open to all 3rd-7th graders in the St. Louis Jewish community, will officially get underway next month. Although it will be based at Congregation Shaare Emeth, any child from any...
This article contains spoilers about Season 1 of “Yosi, the Regretful Spy” on Amazon Prime Video.
(JTA) — More than three decades after overseeing the conversion to Judaism of a charming young Argentine man with a Jewish wife, Rabbi Mauricio...
Upcoming events include a family "Making Mensches" event at Shaare Emeth's Mitzvah Garden, Kol Rinah's First Fridays family service, 'Matilda: The Musical,' the St Charles Jewish Festival and more.
‘Matilda: The Musical’
When/Where: July 22-24...
For pediatricians, summer is a time when their office schedule is filled with routine physical examinations. Visits for respiratory infections are usually low, and families have the time to schedule a visit to the doctor for their otherwise busy adolescents.
If...
By Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published July 17, 2022
Put a family movie night on your calendar for this coming August because the movie adaptation of the very Jewish Broadway musical “13,” titled “13: The Musical” is about to hit your Netflix, and the first trailer looks so, so delightful.
The...
By Evelyn Frick, Hey Alma!
• Published July 17, 2022
One more warning: spoilers ahead for “Thor: Love & Thunder.”
Marvel movies are renowned for their post-credits scenes. Ranging from important set-ups of future films (like when we met Thanos after 2012’s “The Avengers”) to silly one-off...
