Four years ago, Jew in the City stood outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza with a simple message: Orthodox Jews deserve fair representation. At the time, NBC’s Nurses had aired an episode that grotesquely and inaccurately depicted Hasidic Jews. The portrayal sparked outrage across the Jewish community. But instead of simply protesting, we chose to do something […]
Recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a surprising statistic: people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs the company tens of millions of dollars a year in computing power. Every extra word requires additional processing, and when you multiply that across hundreds of millions of users, basic politeness suddenly becomes expensive. And yet people […]
When people picture a world-record-breaking math achievement, an Orthodox Jewish day school graduate may not be the first image that comes to mind. But Ilana Greenberg — who attended Orthodox Jewish day schools for both middle and high school — recently held the Guinness World Record for reciting digits of pi from memory, challenging assumptions […]
Several weeks ago JITC (Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema) Hollywood Bureau hosted an official panel at Sundance Film Festival on Jewish representation in media. We presented the findings from our groundbreaking study conducted with the Norman Lear Center at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The research examines how general Jewish characters—and also […]
The Prime Minister’s Office released footage Sunday from a security consultation held the previous night, at the height of Operation “Roaring Lion.” Gathered around the table were the Prime Minister, senior cabinet ministers, and Shin Bet chief David Zini. On that table, clearly visible, was the Manot HaLevi, Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz’s commentary on the Book […]
I had a feeling that Israel would attack on Shabbat morning (to be fair- I also thought it would happen for several weeks already). As the son of a historian, Netanyahu lives and breathes history as seen in his speeches and the names he gives (or is involved in giving?) to military operations. According to […]
