Dear Jew in the City, Can we understand the fall of the Assad regime as the fall of Damascus described by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai? Thanks for your question, which I didn’t understand at all. In asking ...

JITC’s 2nd Media Awards on November 12, 2024 hosted the most diverse audience ever – studio execs from—Sony, Paramount, Netflix, Amazon—to Hasidim and everything in between. Founder and executive ...

Do you want to train your staff to be sensitive to antisemitism? Do your employees interact with Orthodox Jewish or Hasidic customers? If so, there are likely misunderstandings, cultural differences, ...

When Wicked first debuted on Broadway back in 2003, the musical was a stirring, thoroughly inventive tale of an unlikely friendship and society’s cruel rejection of its misfits. Today, though, against ...

Ten years ago, I met with an investment banker I was hoping would donate to our organization. I explained how problematic Orthodox representation was. He didn’t disagree that there was a problem, but ...

When the month of Kislev comes around – the month of Chanukah – I’m reminded of dreams. In waking life, we so often forfeit our intuition and prefer “logic.” We attempt to accelerate the plot, or ...

Miami-based artist Igal Fedida exhibited his transcendent collection, “The Art of Letters: Journey Into Being” during Miami’s Art Basel last week at the Bal Harbour Waterfront. Fedida was born in ...

One of our All Stars at JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, Sharon Mazel aspired to work in television and be a journalist. People cast doubt on her dream because she was religious and ‘there are no frum ...

“I just shot a show with Courtney Cox. She said to me, don’t you have to go? Don’t you have daf yomi in the morning? She didn’t call it daf yomi, she called it ‘your Jewish learning thing.’ But I like ...

After a brutal year for Jewish press, this is the biggest win. Thank you Hashem.