Amy Fenster Brown, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 11, 2022
There’s a song kids sing at Jewish summer camp with the lyrics, “Wherever you go, there’s always someone Jewish.”
My husband and I lived that last week when we traveled to San Diego, where both kids played in the JCC Maccabi Games. Of course,...
AMY FENSTER BROWN, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published August 7, 2022
In a previous column I created an awards ceremony for moms, but we shouldn’t get all the attention. Dads deserve to be the butt of the joke … I mean, dads deserve praise, too. They should be awarded for all they do, especially when it’s ridiculous...
(JTA) – Jewish comedy titan Norman Lear turns a century old on Wednesday, and he’s still got a spring in his step.
Lear took to Instagram to reminisce the day before his 100th birthday with a video, singing a lick from the classic tune “That’s...
Benjamin Ivry, The Foward
• Published July 25, 2022
The news that the ketubah, or Jewish marriage contract, for Moe Howard from the Three Stooges has sold at auction for a hefty sum might provoke some reconsideration about the slapstick comedians’ Yiddishkeit.
Some Jews remain decidedly opposed...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 27, 2022
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish, my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents, Mama and Baba.
Both would use Yiddish on occasion, and not...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 21, 2022
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish, my grandparents would use, particularly my maternal grandparents, Mama and Baba. Both would use Yiddish on occasion, and not knowing...
By Jim Sullivan, The Forward
• Published June 14, 2022
I grew up in central Maine in the ’60s and ’70s, and while we weren’t exactly the Mayberry of the North — the fictional town of “The Andy Griffith Show” — if you were looking to find a nearly 100% all-white Catholic and Protestant enclave...
(JTA) — Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ShvomBob Kvadrat-hoyzn, of course. And now the Jewish world knows how to say “SpongeBob SquarePants” in Yiddish, thanks to a translation of the animated kid show’s theme song by Eddy Portnoy, the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 13, 2022
It’s truly amazing how long it takes till you really understand your bubbe or at least a part of her, you took for granted.
Since joining the Jewish Light, I’ve reflected on my own Jewish experience growing up, and part of that was the Yiddish,...
NATE BLOOM, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published June 9, 2022
The sixth “Jurassic Park” movie, “Jurassic World Dominion,” opens in theaters on June 10. In this sequel, humans and dinosaurs now live near each other all over the world and the question is: Who will emerge as the “apex predator?”
The...
(JTA) — Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party.
Now it looks like his production company is making a bat mitzvah-themed film.
The casting site Backstage has posted a casting call for an in-the-works adaptation...
