On Sunday, as I made my way home from our Passover vacation, I received a troubling notification on Instagram. One of our readers tipped us off that a Jewish comedian named Judy Gold had posted a video of a very distasteful joke she made about a Hasidic woman not only being physically assaulted, but how […]
Imagine a video that explores antisemitism, but erases Orthodox Jewish and Zionist experiences (the two most attacked categories of the Jewish people right now) from the conversation. You don’t have to imagine. Jubilee, the popular YouTube channel, published a 52 minute episode on Passover eve on this topic with these holes. I briefly appeared in the […]
There’s war, there’s inflation, there’s a pandemic that won’t quite quit, but the news of the day is Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last night for making fun of Smith’s wife’s baldness due to her alopecia. Lots of people are sounding off today, mostly on the side of “violence is never the […]
Good evening, and welcome to Jew in the City’s Hollywood Bureau Launch and 1st Media Awards. With Purim having recently passed, it gives me an excuse to talk about it! But the truth is that there are many connections between this holiday and how our organization got to this point. Purim is a story about […]
In 2009, actress Mayim Bialik was made over on TLC’s What Not To Wear. (The episode recently aired on Hulu.) As one of Mayim’s close friends, the show asked me to be interviewed about Mayim’s style. I was super excited to appear on television for the first time and freaked out about what I would […]
Next month Marvel plans to debut their first openly Jewish superhero on Disney+. This should be cause for celebration in an age of desired minority representation, but representation only matters if the minority themselves are included in their story. JNS reports: “…Moon Knight, the son of a rabbi and the alter-ego of Marc Spector, a […]
