Send Us Your Nominations for JITC’s 3rd Jewish Media Awards!
After a star-studded and incredibly inspirational 2nd JITC Jewish Media Awards this past November in Lincoln Center with studio and agency reps in attendance, we are thrilled to start planing the next one. JITC’s 3rd Jewish Media Awards will yet again be: The Greatest Night In Jewish Representation. When we launched JITC (Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema) Hollywood Bureau in 2022, we set out to do all the same programming that Hollywood Bureaus of other minority groups had in practice for decades. With the NAACP Image Awards, MPac Media Awards, GLAAD Media Awards, etc. in mind, we built an incredibly inspirational and diverse Jewish evening, celebrating our people, our heritage and our land. Our awards correspond to all three of those categories, and we’d love for you to help us find our next set of winners.
Submit your nomination(s) here.
Keter Shem Tov Award
This award honors proud and authentic Jewish representation in TV and film released within the last year. This content should highlight a Jewish value and/or depict a Jewish tradition or ritual done with pride. Award winners for the 2nd annual awards included: Sheryl Sandberg’s Screams before Silence, Netflix’s Fauda, Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaking, FX’s The Patient, Amazon’s Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey, Featuring Ryan Turell, and David Baddiel’s Documentary, Jews Don’t Count.
All Star Award
With the All Star Awards, JITC honors proud, observant Jews in leading professions across tech, media, law, business. Winners for last year were Jeff Astrof, “Friends” writer, Shifra Kolsky, chief accounting officer at Discover, co-author of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” Sharon Mazel, Ari Sacher, primary engineer of the Iron Dome, Former Assistant Secretary for International Markets, U.S. Treasury Mitchell Silk, and Professor Aaron Twerski, former dean of Hofstra Law School. From Senator Joe Lieberman, of blessed memory, to Fox’s “Gotham” star David Mazouz to the Honorable Ruchie Freier to Emmy-winning “Modern Family” producer, Ilana Wernick, our All Stars demonstrate the tremendous power of kiddush Hashem by bringing Jewish observance and commitment to the highest levels of the professional world.
Lion of Israel Award
This celebrates advocates who publicly stand for Israel. Our past award winner was Daniel Posner, founder of Athletes for Israel, who takes non-Jewish athletes to Israel to see what it’s really like there and become ambassadors for Israel and her people.
Rules and Conditions
You can nominate more than one person/show/film, but please do not submit more than five. Multiple nominations of do not improve chances of winning. The more the nominees embody the values of the award, the greater the chance of winning.
For the All Stars, the nominee does not have to be currently active in the field or hold this position; you can nominate someone for past accomplishments.
Self-nominations are allowed. Please do not promote yourself for marketing reasons, but rather because you humbly acknowledge your unique position and inspiration to others.
To nominate someone for any of these awards, here for any questions about the nomination process, please contact us here.
About the JITC Hollywood Bureau
In 2021, when we decided to build a Hollywood Bureau for Jews, the idea was to do the same programs that every other Hollywood Bureau was doing for decades: academic entertainment studies to show the depictions of Jews with data, build fact sheets, attend DEI panels, and conduct showrunner trainings and hold Media Awards. In only three short years since our official launch, we have done all this and more, ensuring that Hollywood accurately and fairly portrays Jews on screen.
If you found this content meaningful and want to help further our mission through our Keter, Makom, and Tikun branches, please consider becoming a Change Maker today.
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