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...
CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA and Jordan Palmer
• Published August 12, 2022
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...
Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 11, 2022
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,...
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...
