Stephen Silver Archives - St. Louis Jewish Light

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

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

Stephen Silver
Published September 23, 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

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

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

Stephen Silver
Published June 19, 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

Rube Goldberg did way more than draw those wacky machines

Stephen Silver
Published October 17, 2018

Israel ‘almost touched’ peace: A director’s take on the making of HBO’s ‘The Oslo Diaries’

Stephen Silver
Published September 13, 2018

‘Crossing Delancey,’ now 30 years old, was the ultimate Jewish rom-com

Stephen Silver
Published August 24, 2018

‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’ was Adam Sandler’s liberal Zionist manifesto

Stephen Silver
Published June 8, 2018