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A Jewish spy fights for Her life in new Masterpiece series "Ridley Road"

A Jewish spy fights for Her life in new Masterpiece series “Ridley Road”

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 24, 2022

Summer 1962: London is swinging with new music, hip fashions, and an irresistible hedonistic spirit. It’s also seething with antisemitic violence incited by homegrown neo-Nazis. MASTERPIECE presents a riveting drama set in this colorful but tumultuous...

Barry Levinson's "The Survivor" tells story of man who boxed to survive Auschwitz

Barry Levinson’s “The Survivor” tells story of man who boxed to survive Auschwitz

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 24, 2022

More than 80 years after the end of the Holocaust we are once again living in a time of rising antisemitism, and watching genocide happen, this time in Ukraine. These facts make it even more crucial that we continue to remember and pass down the stories...

Ben Foster pulls no punches playing a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO’s new movie

Ben Foster pulls no punches playing a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO’s new movie

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished April 24, 2022

(JTA) – Late in HBO’s new movie “The Survivor,” star Ben Foster’s character has a moment of deep self-awareness.  Foster, playing real-life Auschwitz-survivor-turned-professional-boxer Harry Haft, is finally confronting the inescapable...

Former St. Louisan Dean Schramm’s new film playing this week at Frontenac Cinema

Former St. Louisan Dean Schramm’s new film playing this week at Frontenac Cinema

Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 24, 2022

Former St. Louisan Dean Schramm, who celebrated his bar mitzvah at United Hebrew Congregation, returned home last week for the opening of a film he produced, entitled “Viva Maestro!” at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. The documentary follows...

5 things to know about Jon Bernthal's upcoming HBO series

5 things to know about Jon Bernthal’s upcoming HBO series

Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 24, 2022

If Jon Bernthal is good at one thing, it's versatility. He played a loyal friend in the criminally underseen drama, "Small Engine Repair," a good cop in Taylor Sheridan's "Those Who Wish Me Dead," and famed tennis coach Rick Macci in Reinaldo Marcus Green's...

Director Ted Braun and Dean Schramm

Former St. Louisan Dean Schramm’s new film opens at Frontenac Cinema tonight

Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 22, 2022

Former St. Louisan Dean Schramm, who celebrated his bar mitzvah at United Hebrew Congregation, will return home this week for the opening of a film he produced, entitled “Viva Maestro!” at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema. The documentary follows...

Gwyneth Paltrow funds historical marker at her Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland

Gwyneth Paltrow funds historical marker at her Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland

Published April 21, 2022

(JTA) — Actress and lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow funded the erection of a sign offering information on Jews in her ancestors’ hometown in Poland. The informational signboard is to be unveiled next week at the Jewish cemetery of Nowogród in northeastern...

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What is Ridley Road About?

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 21, 2022

This Sunday, May 1, Nine PBS here in St. Louis will begin airing a spellbinding miniseries called "Ridley Road." The show centers on the fictional character of Vivien Epstein, who goes from humdrum hairdresser to amateur spy after following ex-boyfriend...

"Can We Talk?" episode 74: A Half-Century of Women Rabbis

“Can We Talk?” episode 74: A Half-Century of Women Rabbis

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 21, 2022

Fifty years ago, Rabbi Sally Priesand made history by becoming the first woman rabbi in America. In this episode of the podcast Can We Talk?, women rabbis from three Jewish denominations reflect on the milestone. We speak with Rabbi Dianne Cohler-Esses,...

Mini-film fest to honor Gay Jewish Icon Harvey Milk this weekend in St. Louis

Mini-film fest to honor Gay Jewish Icon Harvey Milk this weekend in St. Louis

Published April 20, 2022

Opera Theater of St. Louis and the Webster University Film Series, along with Cinema St. Louis and the St. Louis LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce are partnering to bring St. Louisans a free, weekend-long event to honor the legacy of gay Jewish icon and...

Do you know this Jew? An actress known for her scandalous personal life and revolutionary activism

Do you know this Jew? An actress known for her scandalous personal life and revolutionary activism

Jeanne Scheper, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 20, 2022

(JWA) -- Libby Holman was known as much for her scandalous personal life and revolutionary activism as for her lush voice. Holman moved to New York to become an actress and singer. She performed her first major role in 1925 in The Sapphire Ring and continued...

Class is in session as two movie mensches launch “FilmShul”

Class is in session as two movie mensches launch “FilmShul”

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 20, 2022

Celebrating and honoring the massive contribution of Jews in Hollywood is at the heart of FilmShul, one of the more unique offerings for the Jewish community to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and it's is finding audiences across the country. What...

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