Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 3, 2022
During Covid, "pandemic pups" became all the rage. More than 23 million American households — nearly 1 in 5 nationwide — adopted a pet during the pandemic, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). My social...
(JTA) — The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and our partner sites at 70 Faces Media have answered the question many times over the years, a testament to its persistence in political life and its significance to American Jews: What do Jews say about abortion?
After...
(JTA) – Elisabeth Finch claimed to have survived a rare and fatal form of cancer. She claimed to have had a life-threatening abortion and a kidney transplant from Oscar-winning actress Anna Paquin. She claimed to have been stalked by an abusive, suicidal...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published May 3, 2022
Dear Friends and Family,
We're thinking of our moms as we approach that yearly Hallmark holiday this coming weekend. And there are some lessons that our mothers passed down to us that we deem quite worthy.
You might think we're a bit old-fashioned,...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 3, 2022
Mazel Tov to St. Louis' own Andy Cohen on the surprise announcement over the weekend that he was welcoming his second child, a little daughter, born via surrogacy.
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No, actress Julia Garner is not related to actress Jennifer Garner. But Julia is quickly becoming an iconic actress on her own, thanks to a starring role as Ruth in Ozark and her supporting role in The Americans.
The Jewish actress has only been...
No offense to Mrs. Maisel, but Sam Fox on FX’s “Better Things” is the Jewish icon we need to see on TV. The final season of the show, about a working actor and single mom to three teenagers, displays all the traits we love in Jewish women while...
(April 28, 2022 / JNS) The small Jewish boy from Berlin stood a few meters from Adolf Hitler. He waved the salute, ran away and told his parents. Shaken and called crazy for wanting to leave to go to a desert—this was years before Kristallnacht in...
(JTA) — Bupkis — meaning nothing, absolutely zilch — is one of those few Yiddish words that have become part of the American lexicon. It’s also the name of Pete Davidson’s new show.
The series, which will air on NBC’s Peacock...
In 2018, Jewish identical twins and local entrepreneurs Jeff and Randy Vines, owners of STL-Style at 3159 Cherokee Street, contracted with father-daughter artists Robert and Liza Fishbone, to paint a new, full-scale mural on the side of their shop.
Well,...
The “Fantastic Beasts” franchise was supposed to be about two things: the eponymous beasts and the defeat of Gellert Grindelwald, a thinly-veiled wizard Hitler. Yet “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third installment in what is supposed to...
