The St. Louis Jewish Community Center (The J) will host its 44th annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival from November 6-13. The festival features a lineup of bestselling authors, investigative journalists, Netflix stars, nationally known chefs, true crime...
CALEB GUEDES-REED, JTA and Jordan Palmer
• Published August 12, 2022
You may want to move quickly on getting your tickets for this upcoming event because appearances by James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Twitty are known to sell out quickly.
Twitty, who released a book of recipes and essays that fuses Jewish and...
Hilary Gan, Director of Literary Arts at the Jewish Community Center
In one or two sentences, can you explain your job?
I oversee the annual Jewish Book Festival and the Used Book Sale, with the full force of some amazing committees...
The St. Louis Jewish Book Festival will hold a Spring Virtual Popup, featuring four nights of author presentations, from April 18-21. Headlining the event is longtime St. Louis Public Radio host and TV news anchor Don Marsh, who will discuss his latest...
By Eric Berger , Associate Editor
• Published October 21, 2020
If Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of the first three “Men in Black” films, had been able to appear in person at the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival, he might have gone up the Gateway Arch for the first time. That is as long as he “knew there was...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published July 24, 2020
Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld will be the keynote speaker for opening night of the 42nd annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival on Sunday, Nov. 1. He will speak about his new book, “Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker,” which...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS
• Published July 10, 2020
Although legendary funny man Carl Reiner enjoyed a very full life in which he was amazingly successful in every medium, his passing last week at the age of 98 left our already cloudy world even darker. With the COVID-19 pandemic growing worse and with...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published November 7, 2019
My mother taught me that it was never OK to take something that didn’t belong to you. That was called stealing, and it was wrong. Looking back, the exception seemed to be Sweet’N Low.I can’t remember a time growing up that mom didn’t stuff a few...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published November 7, 2019
Todd S. Purdum never saw a Rodgers & Hammerstein show at the Muny.But when he was growing up in Macomb, Ill., he saw lots of other musicals at the Forest Park theater. “We came to the Muny quite often,” recalled Purdum, a staff writer at Vanity...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2019
Simply stated, Yousef Bashir’s memoir “The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine” is worth reading because the attitude of this Palestinian from an old, established Gaza family is not what we might expect, given his experiences during...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in Chief Emeritus
• Published October 31, 2019
It is hard to get your arms around the fact that it has been a half-century since the 1969 New York Mets evolved from the “Lovable Losers” of Major League Baseball to the “Miracle Mets” who defied all odds to win the World Series of that year....
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2019
Readers eagerly wait for it all year. The 41st annual St. Louis Book Festival takes place Nov. 3-17 at the Jewish Community Center’s Staenberg Family Complex. The festival is one of the nation’s largest, with 25 events in 12 days.This year the opening...
