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Angela McManis is community services director at Jewish Family Services. Photo: Bill Motchan

Abuse prevention effort adapts over 30 years to keep kids safe

BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished April 20, 2022

For 30 years, Jewish Family Services (JFS) has visited St. Louis area schools delivering its Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP). The initiative has never been more important. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in...

Simon Igielnik (left) with his parents, Jack and Fela, during a 1995 family trip to Israel.

Documentary on Holocaust featuring St. Louis survivors re-airing Sunday

Jordan Palmer and Eric BergerPublished April 20, 2022

Nine PBS is re-airing an important documentary on Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas City after World War II. Two of them later moved to St. Louis. “All These Delicate Sorrows,” which premiered last June will reair Sunday, April 24 at 4...

Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Save Our World’ by Stacy and Athena

Jewish Song of the Week: ‘Save Our World’ by Stacy and Athena

Published April 20, 2022

“Save Our World” by Stacy and Athena (JKids Radio) From Rick Recht: This week we celebrate Earth Day! There are SO many great kids songs from Jewish and secular artists about taking care of our planet — a message that grows more important year...

Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane returning to St. Louis for book signing

Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane returning to St. Louis for book signing

Published April 20, 2022

Left Bank Books & St. Louis Public Library, welcome former St. Louisans Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane, who will discuss with humor, optimism, energy, and honesty the book that will help readers face what comes their way as they age,...

Jewish singer Micaela Diamond featured in Broadway's ‘The Cher Show’ bringing her cabaret act home

Jewish singer Micaela Diamond featured in Broadway’s ‘The Cher Show’ bringing her cabaret act home

Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 20, 2022

In 2018, Micaela Diamond, was cast in the role of Babe, the youngest version of Cher in “The Cher Show.” On April 26, Diamond, 22, will perform here at Blue Strawberry. She recently shared some of her stage secrets with The Jewish Light. As...

Marvin Chomsky, director of the influential TV miniseries ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92

Marvin Chomsky, director of the influential TV miniseries ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92

Published April 19, 2022

(JTA) – Marvin Chomsky often relayed one searing memory from the set of his 1978 miniseries “Holocaust.” While shooting sequences in Austria to dramatize the mass murders of Jews both at Nazi concentration camps and in the Babyn Yar ravine...

Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman in “Better Call Saul.” Photo by Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television

Jimmy, Saul or David? How ‘Better Call Saul’ upends a biblical rivalry

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished April 19, 2022

In Season 5 of “Better Call Saul,” our hero butchers a biblical metaphor. Seated at a swanky restaurant with his late brother’s law partner Howard Hamlin, Jimmy McGill, who just assumed the professional name Saul Goodman, answers a question...

Israeli company brings ‘pee-tech’ to the Apple Watch

Israeli company brings ‘pee-tech’ to the Apple Watch

Brian Blum, Israel21cPublished April 19, 2022

Olive WatchOS, an app that communicates via Bluetooth with Olive Diagnostics’ KG toilet-mounted sensor to display real-time health data based on passive urinalysis, is now available on the Apple Watch. The app, which is free for individual use,...

Belgian state TV apologizes for video parodying ‘Schindler’s List’

Belgian state TV apologizes for video parodying ‘Schindler’s List’

Published April 19, 2022

(JTA) — A state-owned broadcaster in Belgium apologized for a video that parodies Steven Spielberg’s classic Holocaust movie “Schindler’s List” by dubbing alternative dialogue about an apparent cookie shortage over some of the film’s footage. VRT,...

5 essential Seth Rogen roles as the Jewish actor turns 40

5 essential Seth Rogen roles as the Jewish actor turns 40

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished April 18, 2022

Turning 40 for an actor can sometimes open up their repertoire to new genres or challenges as a performer. But Seth Rogen is already there, existing in an area of versatility that I am not sure some of his fans and critics know enough about. The Jewish...

St. Louis poet Jason Sommer retells his father's real-life story of Nazi brutality in new memoir

St. Louis poet Jason Sommer retells his father’s real-life story of Nazi brutality in new memoir

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 18, 2022

St. Louis author and poet Jason Sommer's father, Jay, is 98 years old and losing his memory. More than 70 years after arriving in New York from World War II-torn Europe, he is forgetting the stories that defined his life, the life of his family, and the...

Danielle Finn, the Modern Orthodox high schooler's run on ‘American Idol’ ends

Danielle Finn, the Modern Orthodox high schooler’s run on ‘American Idol’ ends

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished April 18, 2022

For the past few weeks, we have been following along as Danielle Finn, a Modern Orthodox high schooler brought her voice and talent to “American Idol”. But sadly, her journey has come to an end. The 17-year-old high school student from Los Angeles...

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