Pokemon Go? Um, No: Jew in the City Unplugged
Millions of people are going out to collect these things, but once you’re going out in the world in search of something aren’t there more meaningful things to find?
TV Producer, Ilana Wernick, Accepts Orthodox Jewish All Star Award
Check out this heart-warming and hilarious speech. Watch till the end!
I’m Hasidic. Don’t You Know I’m Human Too?
Editor’s note: This essay was written by a friend of a (Facebook) friend. We saw the post on the Facebook friend’s wall and asked for permission to publish it. I sit on the commuter train, as I do every morning for the past ten months. I am one among the hundreds of thousands of humans […]
The Gross Double Standard In “Body Shaming”
Last month we released “The Skin Gap,” a YouTube video which humorously conveys a pervasive gender inequality that no one ever talks about: the societal expectation for thin, young girls and women to show off more skin than their male counterparts in the same social settings. We received a lot of support for this video, […]
Columbia Treasurer Gail Hoffman Accepts Orthodox All Star Award
“I never thought about being a role model as an Orthodox Jew, but maybe this experience has given me something to think about.”
Orthodox Jewish All Star, Gail Hoffman, Columbia University Treasurer
Gail Hoffman is the first Orthodox Jew to hold a senior administration position in Columbia University. “I don’t know what it would be like to live without a spiritual side.”
