Two brothers, ages 4 and 6 were rammed by a terrorist in a car in Israel, while walking with their father and brother two weeks ago. Both boys were killed. Last I heard, the father was in critical condition. I have two boys who are two years apart. Seeing those sweet, smiling faces beneath their […]

The following movie review began with angry texts I sent to friends and colleagues yesterday, as I was watching You People, the number one movie now streaming on Netflix. It premiered on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I’ve got to hand it to them on the timing: nothing says #neveragain like #rightnow. There are numerous spoilers […]

Yesterday, a woman collapsed on a plane from New York to Fort Lauderdale and a Hasidic Jewish man was the one to step in and help save her. In the article though, there was no mention of the fact that he was Hasidic. He was called “a man” in one outlet and “a man wearing […]

In November, our JITC Hollywood Bureau attended the Television Academy’s DEI summit where they told us to be brave and asked if they had missed any points. I was. They had. I explained that they had forgotten the Jews. An academic entertainment group at UCLA, Scholars and Storytellers, heard by impassioned speech and wanted me […]

I recently attended an inclusion seminar that excluded Jews. I called it out in the middle of the program, in front of everyone. (Actually, I attended two recent seminars that excluded Jews and called it out both times.) At the second one, during a breakout session on how to be a responsible bystander when you […]

Growing up, as a proud secular Jewish kid in New Jersey, I experienced some antisemitism in public school from time to time. My mother warned us that every country eventually tires of its Jews, and one day we might have to pack and run. But it seemed that society had mostly progressed in modern times […]