(JTA) — Jewish actor Liev Schreiber will play Anne Frank’s father Otto in a new Disney+ limited series, the latest dramatization of the Frank family’s harrowing life in hiding from the Nazis.
The eight-episode miniseries, “A Small Light,”...
(New York Jewish Week) — “Funny Girl” is so deeply ingrained in Beanie Feldstein’s life that she doesn’t even remember the first time she watched the movie. “From my developmental psychology classes in college, I think I remember that...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House’s top COVID-19 response coordinator said that Americans over 60 should be getting a second vaccine booster shot, citing Israeli data.
“The data out of Israel is pretty compelling for people over 60,”...
Just as ironic as the fact that “White Christmas” was written by a Jewish composer named Irving Berlin, Peeps, those famously neon-colored marshmallow Easter treats, are also produced by Jews. Based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Just Born Quality...
NATE BLOOM, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 15, 2022
Two big-budget films with a Jewish connection opened last week and are still in theaters: “Ambulance,” an action-thriller, and “Sonic: The Hedgehog 2,” a combination animation and live-action film that is appropriate for “children of all ages.”
Here’s...
This article first appeared on Hey Alma.
It’s fun and exciting when our favorite celebrities regale us with the minutiae of their lives. What color were the balloon arches at Jenny Slate’s bat mitzvah? How does Morgan Spector react to being the...
JUDITH NEWMARK, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 14, 2022
When Alex Ludwig was born in 1979, Woodstock was 10-year-old news.
Of course, people remembered the festival, a counter-cultural phenomenon that drew some 500,000 kids to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for three days of peace, love and music.
And what...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published April 14, 2022
Dear Jewish Light reader,
Please help me put an end to a mystery. I'll just say it straight up, I think the kid, featured on the cover of my very own Maxwell House Haggadah, is now grown up and is a major Hollywood star. Many of his fans simply know...
One of the best things about it being 2022, other than the fact that 2021 is finally over, is that this year will see Fauda returning to our screens with a brand-new, promising-as-ever Season 4.
To help you ready yourself for the monumental moment...
By Daniel Shanker and Avital Vorobeychik
• Published April 14, 2022
Machshava is the Hebrew word for thought. It’s the perfect name for Epstein Hebrew Academy’s literary magazine, as the Machshava encompasses thoughts reflected throughout the St. Louis Jewish community.
Thought is a purposely vague term, opening...
Kerri Steinberg, Otis College of Art and Design
• Published April 13, 2022
For more than a millennium, the haggadah has been the centerpiece of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The book sets out the ceremony for the Seder meal, when families tell the biblical Exodus story of God delivering the ancient Israelites from slavery...
This article originally appeared on The Nosher.
Many home cooks this past year, in an Instagram-inspired spirit, upped their challah-baking game with new braiding patterns, interesting flavors and vibrant colors. Yet it was a more standard ingredient...
