By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 1, 2012
Late last week, a number of friends and former colleagues at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch learned that they no longer had jobs. Several of them had been called at home Thursday night, after they had worked their shifts during the day, to be told the news....
The New Jewish Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 lineup, featuring five plays — including dramas by Neil Simon and David Mamet and a play based on a novel by Israeli writer Yonatan Ben Nachum.The NJT, which recently won six Kevin Kline Awards for...
The Jewish Book Council announced its 2011 Jewish Book Awards on Tuesday, honoring "Jerusalem: A Biography" by Simon Sebag Montefiore with the group's Jewish Book of the Year award. Click here to read the Light's review of "Jerusalem." Pulitzer Prize...
MORE THAN 40 YEARS AGO I wrote a story about Lilo Waxman's charming five-room dollhouse, which had not long before arrived from its hiding place in Germany. These miniature dollhouse rooms were handed down starting with Lilo's great-grandmother in 1852,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published August 24, 2011
In 1989, playwright Wendy Wasserstein came to Washington University's Graham Chapel to speak.That year Wasserstein had won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - the first ever given solely to a woman playwright - for her Broadway hit "The Heidi Chronicles."...
WASHINGTON — It was the latest dustup over what constitutes acceptable discourse in the American Jewish community when it comes to Israel. Except this time the battle wasn't contained within the community, but began at a university board meeting and...
