I’m an exhausted Black Jewish American. Every time these frustrating situations occur it keeps proving why Black Jewish Americans must be included in Black-Jewish relations dialogues in America because we understand both communities. This most recent American societal-cultural issue brought the Black American and Jewish community to blows online. The entire Jamie Foxx-Jennifer Aniston antisemitism […]

Dear Jew in the City, Can Orthodox Jews watch TV and movies? Best, Shmuel   Dear Shmuel, Thanks for your question. The obvious answer, based on simple observation, is that Chareidim (i.e., “ultra-Orthodox” Jews) are unlikely to partake of television and movies, while doing so is quite common among Modern Orthodox Jews. A review of […]

Oppenheimer has raked in over $300 million in box office sales, since its opening a week and a half ago. It’s a movie about several Jews who created the atomic bomb, which was built to end the systematic killing of the Jews in Hitler’s Europe. Many of the central players in the Manhattan Project were Jews, […]

Legendary singer Tony Bennett passed away on Friday after a battle with Alzheimer’s Disease in his home in Queens at 96-years-old.  One person carrying on his legacy is his daughter, Antonia, who has followed in his footsteps as a jazz singer herself. She performed alongside her father ever since she could walk and talk and […]

Yes, you read that right. The Haredi community actually does have a growing workforce, despite what much of the media is reporting. Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal printed what they considered to be front-page news: “Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shake Israel’s Sense of Identity,” the headline read. The article essentially spoke about how the Haredi […]