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Danny Jacobs' St. Louis based podcast 'How To Destroy Everything' is back with new episodes

Danny Jacobs’ St. Louis based podcast ‘How To Destroy Everything’ is back with new episodes

By Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish LightPublished October 29, 2024

The sixth episode of Danny Jacobs’ "How To Destroy Everything" was released on Tuesday, Oct. 29. The Jewish Light profiled Jacobs and his filmmaking partner Darren Grodsky in August 2023 after the Jewish St. Louis natives debuted their podcast. The...

Five Jewish horror movies to watch at Halloween

Five Jewish horror movies to watch at Halloween

By Andy Freedman, Moment MagazinePublished October 29, 2024

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  Just in time for Halloween, I have a few movies to recommend that have Judaism at their core. If you haven’t been paying much attention to horror movies lately,...

Waitlists open for Covenant Place

Waitlists open for Covenant Place

Published October 29, 2024

Waitlists for the Covenant Place I Weinberg Building and Covenant Place II Cahn Family Building affordable senior apartments are now open to new applicants, aged 62+ who meet the income eligibility criteria. These units feature open floor plans, modern...

Justin Timberlake at Nationwide Arena Nov. 16, 2013.

Curtains up, pages turn and stages shine with St. Louis’ end of the entertainment lineup

BY PATRICIA CORRIGAN, Special To The Jewish LightPublished October 29, 2024

Opportunities to engage with the arts this fall are as vibrant as the season’s autumn leaves.   Theaters have scheduled comedies, dramas, mysteries and musicals. Other entertainment venues invite you to hear Chris Botti, Ann Hampton Callaway, Billy...

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump holds a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 27, 2024. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

‘I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,’ Donald Trump says at Georgia rally

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished October 29, 2024

Speaking at a campaign rally in Georgia on Monday night, Donald Trump said the Kamala Harris campaign was painting him and his supporters as embracing Nazi ideology, a charge he rejected forcefully. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi,”...

Would a real mensch wear a ‘mensch’ T-shirt?

Would a real mensch wear a ‘mensch’ T-shirt?

By Jodi Rudoren, The ForwardPublished October 28, 2024

This is an adaptation of our editor-in-chief’s weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. At a Jewish conference in Chicago last month, I picked up a T-shirt for the husband with a single word on it:...

Benjamin Ginsberg, Center Chair, Lecturer

Author coming to St. Louis urges Jews to rethink alliances amid rising left-wing antisemitism

KEVIN DEUTSCH, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished October 28, 2024

In Benjamin Ginsberg’s latest book, “The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and The Jews”, he urges Jews to “wake up” to the threat posed by left-wing antisemitism in the United States. Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor...

Leo Durocher.

This World Series echoes 1941, when Cardinals legend Leo Durocher battled Hitler from the dugout

By Rafael MedoffPublished October 28, 2024

As the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers face off in this year’s World Series, some recall the first time the two teams met in the Fall Classic, in 1941—a contest remembered for one of baseball’s most famous plays. But that World Series was...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

Bipartisan support after Israel retaliates against Iran

By Jacob KornbluhPublished October 27, 2024

Strikes by Israel on military sites in Iran Friday night, an operation closely coordinated with the Biden administration, garnered rare bipartisan U.S. support. Both presidential candidates – Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald...

Phil Lesh lights the candles as Jeannette Ferber, a cantorial soloist at Berkeley's Renewal congregation Chochmat HaLev, sings the blessing, and guitarist Ross James looks on. (© Bob Minkin Photography / www.minkinphotography.com)

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist who hosted musical Passover seders, dies at 84

Philissa CramerPublished October 27, 2024

Among the legions of Grateful Dead fans mourning Phil Lesh are a small but devoted cohort of Jewish Deadheads with memories of celebrating Passover with him. “To life! To Phil! Our love will not fade away! Eternally grateful,” the Jewish vocalist...

Jerry Wartski, a Holocaust survivor and retired New York City real estate investor, blasted Kamala Harris in an ad released by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (Screenshot)

Trump campaign ad features Holocaust survivor rebutting Harris’ ‘fascist’ allegation

Philissa CramerPublished October 27, 2024

A new campaign ad for Donald Trump pushes back against Kamala Harris’ claim that the former president is a “fascist” by featuring a Holocaust survivor who says Harris is disgracing his murdered family members with the allegation. “Adolf Hitler...

A general view of Tehran after several explosions were heard in Tehran,  Oct. 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare, AFP via Getty Images))

Israel hits Iranian military targets in retaliation for Oct. 1 missile barrage

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished October 25, 2024

WASHINGTON — Israel said it hit military targets in Iran in retaliation for that country’s missile barrage on Oct. 1, apparently heeding Biden administration pleas to avoid oil fields or Iran’s nuclear program because of fears of escalation into...

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