“The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive” is a methodically researched and harrowing book about Otto von Wachter, a high-ranking SS member and one-time governor of Krakow.
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2022
After two years as a virtual event, the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival returns to an in-person format this year. The festival, set for Nov. 6-13, will feature authors and panel discussions on wide-ranging subjects, from cooking to true crime, history...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published November 1, 2022
The desire to own fewer things in our lives can be seen with the current decline in luxury spending or spending in general, and the cult success of listening to the decluttering superstar author Marie Kondo.
Whether we buy fewer possessions or just...
(JTA) – The acclaimed novelist Cormac McCarthy is known for his haunting, apocalyptic depictions of the American South and West. But in his new books, McCarthy is exploring different soil: the American Jewish experience.
A pair of new McCarthy novels,...
BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published October 26, 2022
What was so special about Helen Rosenthal’s matzoh ball soup?
“Nothing,” her son Phil says.
In the second season of “Somebody Feed Phil,” Rosenthal’s Netflix show, he featured the dish in the New York City episode. In an interview from...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 25, 2022
In the early 1980s, older adults had far fewer resources. Community centers offered basics such as a hot lunch, simple crafts and bingo. It’s a much different world now, thanks in large part to Oasis, a national network that began 40 years ago in St....
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 24, 2022
(JTA) — As images of the banner held above Interstate 405 in Los Angeles claiming “Kanye is right about the Jews” ricocheted around the internet this weekend, Jessica Seinfeld decided to take a stand.
A cookbook author and wife of comedian Jerry...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 20, 2022
On Oct. 10th, we shared the big news that St. Louis native Jessica Radloff was set to release her first-ever book, “The Big Bang Theory. The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series."
Now, just 10 days later, Radloff's book has joined the...
(JTA) — The history of Jewish identity and politics in America has been told as a triumph of spiritual renewal (“A Certain People,” Charles Silberman, 1986), as an overdue flexing of political muscle (“Jewish Power,” J.J. Goldberg, 1996) and...
BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published October 19, 2022
Excuses. Excuses. We are all guilty of using them to rationalize and make us feel better. But some folks are chronic repeat offenders.
There, we've said enough!
Alibis are designed to get someone off the hook; either the person who needs the...
By Julia M. Klein, The Forward
• Published October 12, 2022
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
By Tom Dunkel
Hachette Books, 464 pages, $32
Last year, Rebecca Donner’s gripping biography, “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” explored...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 10, 2022
True story. When Jessica Radloff, the author of the new book, "The Big Bang Theory. The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series" first saw the show back in 2007, she was not impressed.
"I watched the first two episodes of the show and then...
