I recently connected with a non-Jewish Olympic gymnast. I read that there was this new pushback in the gymnastics world, where female gymnasts were asking for more fabric like their male counterparts get. It reminded me of the skin gap – a feminist term we coined at Jew in the City which speaks to the […]
Last week, the world was shocked as Britney Spears testified in court, describing how she’s been demeaned, controlled, and unable to act with agency for the last 13 years since the conservatorship, run by her father, took over her money, her mental health treatment, her reproductive choices and even her ability to come and go […]
Last week Variety editor Malina Saval penned an important piece: Too Jewish For Hollywood: As Antisemitism Soars, Hollywood Should Address Its Enduring Hypocrisy In Hyperbolic Caricatures of Jews. In it Saval discusses Hollywoood’s Jewish history and its troubling portrayal of Jews. While some will say, “Jews control Hollywood,” the truth is that Jews created Hollywood […]
A couple weeks ago Chanale Fellig approached us explaining that a Tiktoker called Emma’s World had made a viral and very historically inaccurate video claiming libelous things about Jews and our ties to the land of Israel. She wanted to know if we were interested in setting the record straight. We said we must. The […]
I just realized that if you want to be a passable Jew, you better de-Jewify. If you want to be a Jew that is tolerated, you better not be too Jewish, for there is a harm in being too Jewish. I’ve known for quite some time that the media and much of the secular world […]
Antisemitism is predicted in the Talmud and is a byproduct of Jews being in exile. This means that in every generation, Jews must shape-shift into the enemy du jour in order to be hated. The hate will defy logic. And this is how it is playing out now: the group that is committed to ending […]
