Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, Aish Hatorah Resources
• Published December 10, 2021
West Side Story, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 movie classic, is focusing attention on this iconic American musical. Here are seven little-known Jewish facts about West Side Story.
1. It was supposed to be about Jews and Catholics.
Choreographer...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson will be the first guest lecturer as part of a new partnership between Maryville University, philanthropists Michael and Carol Staenberg, and the Staenberg Family Foundation, and the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman...
This story ‘A baseball star and all-around mensch finally makes it to the Hall of Fame’ was originally published on Nov. 30 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.”
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HARLEY HAMMERMAN, SPECIAL FOR THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published December 6, 2021
Have you ever wondered what happened to that restaurant you once loved and have memories of dining at with your family and friends? We did! There is an amazing website called Lost Tables, dedicated to celebrating the restaurants of our past. We are partnering...
Alan Avery-Peck, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies, College of the Holy Cross
• Published December 1, 2021
The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.
On the surface, it’s a story of male heroism....
In today’s story from the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, We tell the story of Felicia Graber, a St. Lousian who survived the Holocaust not knowing she was Jewish.
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust...
In the Tanach, you'll find numerous references to axes, either as weapons or as tools. That could be one reason why many Jews are throwing axes.
In Judges 9:48, we read: “Abimelech took the axes in his hand and cut down a branch of the trees, lifted...
In today's story from the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum, We tell the story of Bess Fizel, a St. Lousian who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum is allowing...
Thanksgiving is a quintessentially American holiday, and for generations, many Jews had concerns regarding their ability to celebrate. That’s why prominent Orthodox rabbis of the mid-20th century, including Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and Rabbi Moshe...
Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
• Published November 20, 2021
“Jews will not replace us,” demonstrators chanted at the “Unite the Right” rally organized by armed white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, to stop the removal of a statue dedicated to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Heather...
Jeannette Gabriel, Director, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
• Published November 13, 2021
In October 2021, a new museum opened in Paris, dedicated to the famous “Dreyfus affair.”
Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish captain in the French army who was court-martialed and convicted of treason on flimsy evidence in 1894 – then exonerated in...
Jordan Palmer, Director of digital Communications
• Published November 13, 2021
I'm patiently waiting to go to brunch.
I'm waiting because my wife Leigh is blow-drying her hair. I only mention that, because she just came inside from outside, and said, "It's too cold to be outside with wet hair," and now, I'm waiting.
As I often...
