Secure attachment is harder and harder to find these days. It is the ability to rest in yourself, to believe in yourself, to love yourself. Securely attached people feel like the world is mostly safe and people are mostly good. They feel confident to advocate for themselves and take healthy risks. Secure attachment comes about […]
Christmas Eve has been a historic night for antisemitic violence throughout history, and this past Thursday night, Christmas Eve violence came to NBC’s Law & Order SVU. The episode focused on attacks in New York City targeting the Orthodox Jewish community. As hate crimes against Jews (particularly Orthodox Jews) have been up all over the […]
In every field and profession, there are the good guys, the bad guys and the mediocre guys. Rabbinics and Jewish education are no different. Our sages were very aware that not every rabbi will be the right fit for every person or frankly even qualified for the job. So they empowered we the people with […]
Chaim Walder (pictured left), a haredi author who was most known for his “Kids Speak” children’s book series was recently accused of multiple accounts of sex abuse. He had been summoned to appear before a rabbinic court and then apparently took his own life. Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat, had formed this special […]
The London police have begun to search for a ‘knife-wielding attacker’ who allegedly assaulted and threatened to murder an Orthodox Jewish man inside a Marks and Spencer store in north London earlier this month. The attacker allegedly told the 20 year old victim that he was ‘looking for a Jew to kill.’ The perp then followed […]
All minorities – including Orthodox Jews – deserve a seat in the writer’s room when stories about our communities are being told. That’s why we are thrilled to announce the JITC Hollywood Bureau! Since our founding in 2007, Jew in the City has been the only nonprofit that works to remedy continuous negative depictions of Orthodox Jews […]
