admin | February 11, 2022
Israel Bound Israel Bound is a life-changing experience for St. Louis teens who want to explore their Jewish identity, strengthen their connection to Israel and have the adventure of a lifetime with their friends. The three-week trip began in 2008 and continues to be one of the most popular trips for St
admin | February 11, 2022
Days before Stephen H.
admin | February 11, 2022
Stephen Klineberg, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Sociology at Rice University and the founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, will present at the next Jewish Community Conversation event on Tuesday, Feb 15. Everyone is welcome to attend on Zoom, from noon-1 p.m.
admin | February 11, 2022
A new exhibit at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe takes a page from Jewish graphic novels and comics. Showcasing 12 projects that recount biblical tales, rabbinic writings and personal biographies, the exhibit pairs image and text to spark conversation. When Ben Schachter and Andrew Julo began work on People of the Book & the Storyboard nearly two years ago, neither of the Saint Vincent staffers considered their efforts particularly prescient
admin | February 11, 2022
Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based BTselem in calling Israels abusive and cruel system of domination over the Palestinians an apartheid, which amounts to a crime against humanity. Predictably, Israel and its supporters condemned the libellous and anti-Semitic report, and rejected its detailed and well-documented findings as biased distortions. And like the two reports by BTselem and Human Rights Watch, it seems none of the critics bothered to read the 280 pages Amnesty produced, let alone argue against the airtight case in them
admin | February 11, 2022
If Hertz hadnt screwed up my car rental reservation, I never would have seen how much my old hometown, Los Angeles, had changed. There were no cars at all at LAX, so I had to Uber to my hotel in mid-Wilshire. I lived in LA for nearly two decades.
admin | February 5, 2022
Mazel Tov is getting Mazel Tough-er for some families. In the final episodes of And Just Like That on HBO Max, Charlotte York-Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis) helped her nonbinary child, Rock, prepare for their traditional Jewish coming-of-age ceremony. Typically, bar and bat mitzvahs, in which 13-year-old boys and 12-year-old girls are welcomed into adulthood and called up to the Torah for the first time, are divided by gender
admin | February 5, 2022
The Louisville Jewish Film Festival is almost a quarter of a century old and its returning tomorrow. The hybrid in-person and virtual Festival will run officially from Feb. 5-27, but one movie, Mazel Tov Cocktail, is available to stream now for free.
admin | February 5, 2022
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightFebruary 4, 2022 Its that time again to relax and watch some movies and television shows. Heres what to watch this week in Jewish entertainment While My Best Friend Anne Frank isnt exactly engineered to make you relax, it will get your mind racing.
admin | February 5, 2022
As we move into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all watching the seemingly never-ending seesaw of numbers caused by the omicron surge, and now the omicron BA.2 variant. Add to that the political divisiveness over the vaccine, staffing shortages, overrun hospitals, overworked medical staffs, concerns about teacher and student wellness
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