What does a film about Israeli baseball, a biopic about a beautiful, brainy Hollywood movie star, and a Hungarian film noir have in common? They are all playing at this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. The Jewish Community Center’s 23rd annual...

As a way to extend the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival held in early June and to bring local audiences the best of Jewish cinema throughout the year, the festival will host a double feature July 10 that includes a movie directed by St. Louis native Shayna...

The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival continues its 21st year with two events at the Jewish Community Center’s Arts & Education Building, 2 Millstone Campus Drive. At 4 p.m. Sunday, July 10, the festival will present a double feature. The first film,...

For those old enough (or curious enough) to have watched the classic ’70s “Saturday Night Live” sketch about Shimmer — “it’s a floor wax and a dessert topping!” — you’ll find no surprise in how the sweet “Midnight Orchestra” can...

In director Atom Egoyan’s thriller “Remember,” Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer play Max and Zev respectively, two Shoah survivors now living in a New York retirement home. When Zev’s beloved wife dies, Max tells Zev he must now fulfill...

The tremendous significance of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was brave on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, is vividly evident in the compelling documentary, “Rabin in His Own Words,” directed by Erez Laufer.Despite...

The romantic comedy “Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong” follows a young couple as they walk and talk around a colorful, night-time Hong Kong. Well, not exactly a couple, because at the start of the film they have just met.St. Louis native Bryan Greenberg...

The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival marks its 21st year by going on a “world tour” with 16 Jewish-theme films from, or set, in 10 countries. The festival begins Sunday, June 5, and runs through Thursday, June 9, at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.“We’re...

The warm comedic drama “Dough” stars British actor Jonathan Pryce (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) as an old Orthodox Jewish baker who runs a struggling kosher bakery in a changing London neighborhood and takes on a teenage African boy as an assistant ...

Ladies and Gentlemen  — in this one issue only — the Jewish Light brings you the all-singing, all-dancing 2012 Summer Arts Guide! We have for you a plethora of performances, perhaps more cultural events than ever before seen in the pages of this...