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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 Jews in television.’ She persisted and eventually landed ...

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 ...

November is National Adoption Month and we had the pleasure of speaking with Chavie Bruk, who courageously shares her story with grace, wisdom, and levity. Married in her early twenties in 2006, ...

“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 ...

Jews don’t run Hollywood, but we started it, and if we want to fight antisemitism, we need to make sure that we tell proud and authentic stories through television and film using the same mechanisms ...

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

In 2019, I got the insane idea that we should go to Lincoln Center for our 6th All-Star awards. Everyone told me how challenging it would be, but I didn’t believe them. The planning and fundraising ...

Eighteen years ago, I sat nervously in my doctor’s office. It was a cold and sterile place. Under the fluorescent lights, as I watched the clock tick by, I felt uneasy and unable to sit still. I came ...