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‘Saving Freud’ details psychoanalysis founder’s almost fatal reluctance to leave his beloved Vienna

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished October 6, 2022

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, inspired both adulation and condemnation during his career, both of which are true to this very day, 83 years after his death in London in 1939. Freud, whose towering intellect inspired admiration from his...

Time challenged?  Picky kids? St. Louisan offers food prep tips from new cookbook

Time challenged? Picky kids? St. Louisan offers food prep tips from new cookbook

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 6, 2022

Dini Klein, a St. Louis native and Epstein Hebrew Academy alum, has a large online following, with 150,000 followers on Instagram. Klein specializes in sharing food prep tips for busy households. Her Prep + Rally website is popular among parents of picky...

‘I’m here with my two Jewish lawyers’: How Trump was pushed to disavow David Duke

‘I’m here with my two Jewish lawyers’: How Trump was pushed to disavow David Duke

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished October 3, 2022
In new book, veteran reporter Maggie Haberman highlights Donald Trump’s ‘uncertainty’ about disassociating himself from the nation’s most famous white supremacist
How an Auschwitz survivor and conservative politician became an abortion rights champion

How an Auschwitz survivor and conservative politician became an abortion rights champion

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished October 3, 2022

“Her name is associated with women’s equality, the memory of the Shoah and the European community,” was a statement said about Simone Veil, a well-known French politician, Holocaust survivor, scholar, former judge, and feminist activist after she...

Aunt Annette's Holiday Brisket with sweet wine and dried fruits

Aunt Annette’s Holiday Brisket with sweet wine and dried fruits

Published September 22, 2022

One Bonus Recipe Last April, we reported how Jewish BBQ master Steven Raichlen had brought his cooking show to St. Louis, shooting an entire season of shows at Union Station. He is also the author of many a cookbook including "The Brisket Chronicles."...

The ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ books are set to become a TV show

The ‘All-of-a-Kind Family’ books are set to become a TV show

Julia Gergely, JTAPublished September 22, 2022

(New York Jewish Week) – The Lower East Side’s most famous set of Jewish sisters — Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertrude — may soon become TV stars: “All-of-a-Kind Family,” Sydney Taylor’s award-winning 1951 book, is being developed...

Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller and Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Courtesy of Netflix

In ‘Blonde,’ Arthur Miller is Marilyn Monroe’s Jewish husband, and we all know what that means (don’t we?)

By PJ Grisar, The ForwardPublished September 20, 2022
Andrew Domink’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel casts Adrien Brody as a foil to DiMaggio.
St. Louis author Daryl Rothman releasing 2nd installment of his David Rose series

St. Louis author Daryl Rothman releasing 2nd installment of his David Rose series

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 20, 2022

Daryl Rothman grew up in Olivette loving stories and the books they came in. Like any young child, he loved when his parents would read books to him. And while Rothman's parents did read him "Where the Wild Things Are," and "The Giving Tree," and other...

How do you define spirituality?

How do you define spirituality?

BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANEPublished September 20, 2022

As our clocks run down, we may reflect more on our past—our loves, likes and losses, our children and grandchildren, our experiences, our parents long deceased, our ups and our downs, what we’ve contributed to society and what we’re leaving behind...

Judy Blume

Playing Jewish geography with Judy Blume

By Caren Lissner, KvellerPublished September 15, 2022

Popular Jewish American young adult author Judy Blume turned 84 in February, a whopping 52 years after she published her classic novel about adolescence, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (1970). The day after her 84th birthday on February...

Food was a comfort for Auschwitz survivors. A new cookbook showcases their recipes — and resilience.

Food was a comfort for Auschwitz survivors. A new cookbook showcases their recipes — and resilience.

Published September 14, 2022

(JTA) — Eugene Ginter was 12 days shy of his sixth birthday when he was liberated from Auschwitz in January 1945. Emaciated and alone, Ginter landed first in a hospital and then in an orphanage in Krakow, the Polish city where he was born. Several...

An Israeli Marvel hero is appearing in a Captain America movie. Excitement — and backlash — came quickly.

JACKIE HAJDENBERG, JTAPublished September 12, 2022

(JTA) — In a move that is already thrilling some Jewish audiences and stirring controversy among other international fans and activists, Marvel Studios announced that an Israeli comic book hero will appear in the next installment of its Captain America...

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