A year and a half ago, an Orthodox Jewish woman from Belgium reached out to Jew in the City. There were crews in her city, filming something for Netflix about Hasidic Jews. She was worried that it wasn’t going to end well. She noted that there were locals, from the Hasidic community, who were working […]
How do Orthodox Jews make money is currently the number one trending topic on Google now when you search for “Orthodox Jews.” I fear that this topic is trending because people may think that Orthodox Jews make money in some dishonest way due to some recent media depicting them this way. Orthodox Jews, like all […]
My family is in Spain for Pesach, which is breathtaking in its landscape and architecture and rich in its history. From the moment we got off the plane, I felt a heaviness, contemplating what was done to my ancestors in this place. As far as I know, I am not Sephardic, but the Jewish people […]
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 […]
Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof, is beloved by all who have the chance to be embraced by his sweet nature and boisterous spirit. Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor who played the character in the 1971 film adaptation as well as the musical, has much of the same effect. Large audiences are in agreement — he […]
The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical movie, did not win a single Oscar last night, which is a shame. Though the actors cast to play his parents are not Jewish (something I would have preferred) and the fact that the Spielbergs grew up Orthodox wasn’t mentioned (which would have been a neat chance to normalize Orthodoxy), this […]
