Stephen Silver Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ to headline St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, tickets on sale now

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published March 29, 2024

In new documentary Rob Reiner shines a light on Christian nationalism

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published February 19, 2024

‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published February 6, 2024

The most Jewish moments from Barbra Streisand’s memoir

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published December 1, 2023

What’s Jewish about the jam band Phish? Many things, according to a new book.

Stephen Silver
Published September 8, 2023

25 years ago, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ presented a rare portrait of a Jewish soldier in film

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published July 27, 2023

Steve Guttenberg, and his very Jewish life, take the stage for a play adaptation of his memoir

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published April 30, 2023

From Mel Brooks to Michael Douglas: Producer Julian Schlossberg writes memoir about working with Jewish stars over 6 decades

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published February 6, 2023

Documentary traces Idina Menzel’s rise from bat mitzvah performer to Broadway icon

Stephen Silver, JTA
Published December 9, 2022

30 years ago, Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon starred in ‘School Ties’ — one of Hollywood’s few movies about antisemitism at school

STEPHEN SILVER, JTA
Published September 29, 2022

The crazy story of Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ finally to be told

STEPHEN SILVER, JTA
Published August 29, 2022

‘Jackass: Forever’ star Rachel Wolfson on being the first Jew and woman on the stunt comedy team

STEPHEN SILVER, JTA
Published February 18, 2022

Amid antisemitism concerns, 101 local Jewish federations to spend $54M on improving security

JTA
Published October 4, 2021

Is Alicia Silvestone Jewish?

JTA
Published October 3, 2021

The remarkable true story of the Great Knish War of 1916

Jordan Palmer and JTA
Published October 3, 2021

Isaac Asimov’s epic ‘Foundation’ series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated.

Stephen Silver
Published September 23, 2021

Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant, dies at 91

JTA
Published August 29, 2021

GOP congressman compares COVID measures to Holocaust, prompting an intern’s resignation

JTA
Published August 27, 2021

18 Orthodox Jewish girls pulled off New York-bound flight in Amsterdam in dispute over COVID protocols

jta
Published August 8, 2021

Hezbollah fires 19 rockets at Israel in worst fighting since 2006 war

JTA
Published August 6, 2021

A 76-year-old Jewish philanthropist from Los Angeles is one of the world’s most prolific Olympic pin traders

Stephen Silver
Published July 27, 2021

Pickles have the history, but are they still a Jewish food?

Stephen Silver
Published July 5, 2021

Incendiary balloons from Gaza prompt new Israeli airstrikes

JTA
Published June 16, 2021

PBS postpones debut of ‘Til Kingdom Come’ documentary on evangelicals and Israel for ‘editorial review’

Stephen Silver
Published March 30, 2021

A short film offers new perspective on Birthright — through the eyes of Russian Jews

Stephen Silver
Published December 3, 2020

Prince and the Jews: The late rock star’s best Jewish friend tells all in new memoir

Stephen Silver
Published October 9, 2020

Major League Baseball’s official historian on Jews in baseball and making sense of the weirdest season of all time

Stephen Silver
Published September 15, 2020

ChaiFlicks, the ‘Jewish Netflix,’ is here

Stephen Silver
Published August 11, 2020

CNN election forecaster Harry Enten on his bar mitzvah, the 2020 Jewish vote and why he says ‘Shalom’ on TV

Stephen Silver
Published July 24, 2020

Jewish NFL players say education, not ‘cancellation,’ is the right response to DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic posts

Stephen Silver
Published July 13, 2020

‘Dirty Dancing’ is still the best Jewish summer romance of all time. It’s now on Hulu.

Stephen Silver
Published July 10, 2020

Pride rallies held across Israel in lieu of annual parades due to coronavirus

JTA
Published July 2, 2020

‘Defiance’ is the best heroic Jews vs. Nazis inspiration that Netflix has to offer

Stephen Silver
Published June 19, 2020

Ohio’s Health Dept. director resigns after backlash over stay-at-home orders

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

Protesters shout ‘dirty Jews’ at Paris rally against police racism

JTA
Published June 18, 2020

Some believe ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ was staged somewhere in the world every day since the ’60s. COVID-19 ended that.

Stephen Silver
Published June 16, 2020

How Philadelphia’s creative Jews are handling the coronavirus pandemic

Stephen Silver
Published June 3, 2020

‘Keeping the Faith’ is 20 years old. Rabbis and priests look back at the interfaith romcom that was ahead of its time.

Stephen Silver
Published April 29, 2020

The ‘Men in Black’ and ‘Addams Family’ director wrote an extremely Jewy memoir

Stephen Silver
Published March 10, 2020

In Cuba, Jewish foods — from kosher meat to bagels with holes — are hard to come by

Stephen Silver
Published February 13, 2020

‘Uncut Gems’ puts age-old Jewish stereotypes front and center. Why has there been no backlash?

Stephen Silver
Published January 14, 2020

‘A Serious Man’ came out 10 years ago. Here’s what real rabbis think of the Coen brothers film.

Stephen Silver
Published October 16, 2019

He met Bob Dylan at a Jewish camp, and they stayed good friends for 50 years

Stephen Silver
Published September 10, 2019

Before his death at 27, Jewish movie star Anton Yelchin did it all — while battling a secret illness

Stephen Silver
Published August 6, 2019

James Caan’s latest character: A Jew who moves to Israel to become a pig farmer

Stephen Silver
Published June 24, 2019

Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Israeli special ops force was in Gaza for two months before its firefight with Hamas, report says

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Brazil arrests Israeli head of international drug smuggling network

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

EU Council approves declaration on fight against anti-Semitism

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

OSU student government votes down Israel boycott and divestment resolution

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Arrest made in attack on Hasidic man in Brooklyn

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Super soccer star Messi joins Beitar Jerusalem team fans club

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Israel’s chief rabbi lights Hanukkah candles in Polish parliament

JTA
Published December 6, 2018

Princeton is naming a residential college after Ronald and Debra Perelman

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ season 2 debuts on Amazon to glowing reviews

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Saudi dissident sues Israeli cyber tech company in death of Jamal Khashoggi

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Einstein’s ‘God Letter’ sells at auction for nearly $3 million

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

New Hampshire town rejects menorah display. Christmas tree could be next.

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Portugal sets aside a day to remember Inquisition victims

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu rejected in bid to have donors pay his legal fees

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Netanyahu calls violence against women ‘terrorism’ following a rally by 30,000 in Tel Aviv

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

OU’s exec named to NY State Attorney General-elect’s transition team

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Portugal government committee approves Memorial Day for the Victims of the Inquisition

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at events around the world

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Israeli technology effectively prevents attacks during G20

JTA
Published December 5, 2018

Hanukkah menorah is toppled near Harvard campus

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah tunnels are ‘concrete threat’ to Israel’s Galilee region, Netanyahu says

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Evidence of Rohingya genocide is ‘compelling,’ US Holocaust Museum says

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Kosher ban is okay with Jewish supporters of Germany’s far right party

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

3 large swastikas spray-painted in Brooklyn neighborhood

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

101 Jewish and pro-Israel groups ask universities to oppose Israel boycotts

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Rashida Tlaib, newly elected Congresswoman, says she will lead a lawmakers’ trip to West Bank

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Hezbollah and Iran discussed at meeting between Netanyahu and Pompeo

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Israel launches operation to destroy Hezbollah tunnels on northern border

JTA
Published December 4, 2018

Saudi Arabia loses world chess tournament for refusing visas to Israeli players

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Thousands of Israeli women to strike in protest of violence against women

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

ID system for asylum seekers in Mexico recalls Holocaust tattoos

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Condemn anti-Semitic image on pro-government magazine cover, Lauder tells Orban

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Mental status of driver who tried to run down 2 Jews outside LA synagogue questioned

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Synagogue in Basel, Switzerland vandalized

JTA
Published December 3, 2018

Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony held outside Tree of Life synagogue building

JTA
Published December 3, 2018