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In an unexpected turn of events, my life has become consumed with helping broken people heal, since the launching of Makom a few years ago. My original passion of making Jewish observance accessible and meaningful to non-Orthodox Jews expanded to a new area when I discovered a population that had been hurt by a skewed version of […]
While media representation and public opinion of mikvah has been sullied over the years (check out our mikvah video), Naomi Rosenbach, a PhD student at Hofstra, got to thinking about how Jewish women are experiencing the mikvah in real life and what factors might impact their experience. She decided the only way to know for sure was […]
Recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a surprising statistic: people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs the company tens of millions of dollars a year in computing power. Every extra word requires additional processing, and when you multiply that across hundreds of millions of users, basic politeness suddenly becomes expensive. And yet people […]
Joe Teplow, co-founder of the non-profit Good Today wants to make giving a daily habit for the world over. He came up with this idea as a student in Yeshiva University and started building out the concept from his dorm room. From the software they developed for Good Today, Teplow realized there was a for-profit […]
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In a world obsessed with devices, it occurred to me that we are living in an age where silence dominates many situations. Silence between couples, silence between families, silence everywhere you turn as people tap, tap, tap on their devices. What an isolating existence. But what if there was an antidote to silence? What if […]
Big Bang Theory star, Mayim Bialik, asks Jew in the City can science and religion work together in a Jewish framework? While there are some Orthodox Jews who believe in a literal account of the creation story, many of us hold that the events must be understood another way. RAMBAM, also known as Maimonides, stated […]
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The 3rd Jewish Media Awards are coming to Lincoln Center on November 5. We’ll be announcing this year’s winners and opening up ticket sales next month! The 2nd Jewish Media Awards brought together some of the incredible people shaping Jewish storytelling and representation today. Winners included Fauda and Jewish Matchmaking, with presenters including Patricia Heaton […]
For an animator, a job at Disney is the ultimate achievement, and for Saul Blinkoff it was no different. He landed his dream job in his twenties, after years of working towards that goal, made a few movies, and then at a moment when he literally had “the whole package” – he did something unexpected. […]
