A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

 Part of the crowd on the first day of the Woodstock Festival. Photo: Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell/Wikimedia Commons

‘Woodstock’ is strong, but misses festival’s Jewish story

BY NATE BLOOM, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHTPublished August 15, 2019

Woodstock: 50th anniversary“Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation” is a new offering in the PBS “American Experience” series. It premiered last Friday in St. Louis, but there is an encore showing Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. (Channel...

On screens big and small, and on the soccer field

By Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish LightPublished July 19, 2018

At the Movies: Opening soon “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” is based on the true-life story of the late John Callahan (JOAQUIN PHOENIX, 48. Phoenix’s mother is Jewish and he identifies as a secular Jew). Callahan’s severe alcoholism...

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