By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published July 28, 2022
Jordan Peele’s “Nope” is an immensely entertaining meditation on how filmmaking affects both subject and viewer. Depicting an extraterrestrial standoff in the desert of California, it is also about humanity’s relationship with animals, the...
(New York Jewish Week) — In January a young bluegrass guitar player in Appalachia emailed Andy Statman out of the blue, expressing admiration for the work of the 71-year-old Brooklyn klezmer musician. Neither of them had any idea at the time that the...
(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday, and he’s still got a spring in his step.
Lear took to Instagram to reminisce the day before his 100th birthday with a video, singing a lick from the classic tune “That’s...
By Jim Sullivan, The Forward
• Published July 26, 2022
Though some young rock fans might question Rogers Waters’ relevance in the 21st century, his presence on the American musical landscape this summer has been undeniable and inescapable.
The former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter-bassist is on the...
By Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published July 26, 2022
The English actor David Warner, who died July 24 at age 80, proved that Jewish family tsuris can inadvertently serve as inspiration for a stellar performance career.
Warner played screen villains in “The Omen,” “Time Bandits,” “Titanic,”...
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...
