Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 26, 2022
The great speeches of history have lifted our hearts during dark times, given us hope in times of despair, provided courage when we felt fear and helped define the course of human history. But, what about the great speeches that were never delivered?...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 25, 2022
Monty Hall, the friendly and engaging host of the long-running television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” was, a dual American and Canadian citizen who was born Monte Halparin in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba to Orthodox Jewish parents,...
(New York Jewish Week) – Rabbi Rebecca Keren Eisenstadt lives in a one-bedroom apartment on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side, but she feels just as at home in the penthouses just a few blocks away on Park Avenue.
Most afternoons, Eisenstadt and...
On Friday, May 20, Gail Lang did something she had waited to do for 50 years — walk at her college graduation ceremony.
There she was, replete in cap and gown, at the age of 71, walking with roughly 50 members of Washington University’s Class of...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 25, 2022
In 1940, a French Jewish girl's dream of becoming a ballerina is cut short by World War II. She vows that if she has daughters, they will become dancers. Nearly 80 years later, she and her two daughters confront the impact of that pledge. That is the...
BILL MOTCHAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published May 24, 2022
Every Monday night the Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School hosts a dance party in the gym. The participants, who range from teenagers to octogenarians, learn and practice the art of Israeli folk dancing.
The St. Louis Israeli Folk Dance...
Shelley Sackett, The Jewish Experience
• Published May 24, 2022
(The Jewish Experience) -- When Jonathan Lang set out to write a graphic novel about the notorious Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky, he was determined to capture the mobster's life in all its moral complexity.
The result is 2019's "Meyer," for which...
(JNS) David Rudolf is one of the most heralded defense attorneys in America with numerous awards. More importantly, he says, is that he has helped fight for innocent people and tried to make sure that everyone gets a fair trial.
“That’s a central...
(JTA) — To a conspiracy theorist, last week seemed to offer evidence that the Rothschild family is plotting to undermine Elon Musk. It started when the Tesla tycoon bashed the Democratic Party and said in a tweet that he would switch to voting Republican....
Seven years ago, Becky Tahel was a typical millennial creative, working round the clock to grow a career as an actor, writer and content creator. Making it in Hollywood is notoriously difficult but Tahel was on the high road to success; she’d scored...
(JTA) — Jeweler Neil Lane’s name can conjure many things: celebrity wedding rings, for the likes of Madonna, Rihanna and Penelope Cruz. “The Bachelor,” the reality dating show for which he designs the end-of-season rings. Those ubiquitous Kay...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published May 22, 2022
(JTA) — It’s hard to find a poster promoting early 20th-century Zionism that doesn’t depict a tanned, chiseled man toting a shovel or a gun. The posters were visual reinforcement of the “Muscle Jewry” valued by Max Nordau and other early Zionist...
