Here’s All JITC Hollywood Bureau Has Accomplished Since Our Launch One Year Ago

One year ago today, our organization made history by launching the first and only Jewish Hollywood Bureau to advocate for authentic depictions of Jews directly to the studios. Every other group has had one of these Bureaus for decades or at least many years. In only one year, we have:

Met nearly every studio in Hollywood, to explain why Jews belong in these conversations and how Jewish representation needs to change
Included in Variety’s Inclusion Impact Report for creating positive change in Hollywood – the only Jew advocating for Jews ever included
Attended multiple Hollywood DEI seminars
Held the first Jewish Media Awards
Hosted the first ever Sundance panel on Jewish representation
Worked with Think Tank For Inclusion and Equity, to create the first fact sheet on Jews that will be used by TV writers throughout Hollywood
Listed as the Jewish resource for multiple entertainment organizations like WGA and Hollywood Health and Science
Brought on entertainment insider, Cindy Kaplan, to consult in our strategy and join our meetings
Produced a documentary with Hollywood production company, PhilmCo Media: Hollywood’s Orthodox Jew Problem
Got published in UCLA’s prestigious entertainment group Scholars and Storytellers’ newsletter on “The Marginalized Group Inclusion Spaces Forgot to Include”
Created positive changes behind the scenes that we are not able to tell you about. (Are you curious?!)
Got some great media coverage
Began building our advisory board
Raised almost half the money to begin an impact study with a prestigious entertainment group to measure how negative depictions of Jews increased Jew hatred in the world

Watch a short highlight reel of our fist JITC Media Awards, including my opening speech:

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Bob Bookman says on January 9, 2024
I read the Hollywood reporter piece on the letter you organized to AMPAS critiquing Jewish exclusion from diversity standards. I am a longtime member of the Academy, a passionate tribal Jew, and one of a number of similarly situated people I know who were not contacted by you and would like to sign the letter.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Bob Bookman
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Allison Josephs is the founder and executive director of Jew in the City has been involved in the field of Jewish Outreach for over twenty years and is the Partner in Torah mentor to actress Mayim Bialik. She was named one of NJOP’s Top Ten Jewish Influencers and one of the Jewish Week’s 36 under 36. Allison has been quoted or written about in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People Magazine, NYPost, Daily News, TMZ, The Daily Beast, and Hollywood Reporter. She has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including CBS, ABC, Fox5, TLC, Associate Press TV, and NPR; her articles have appeared in publications including The Washington Post, JTA, Jewish Week, Jerusalem Post, The Forward, and Kveller. Pearson Education, the largest textbook company in the world, produced a video segment on Allison’s life for the Judaism chapter of their textbook. She is a sought-after international lecturer whose corporate clients include Con-Edison and NYU Langone and hosts a weekly podcast on the Nachum Segal Network. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Philosophy and lives with her husband and four children minutes from the George Washington Bridge.