At JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, we were proud to honor Hasidic Jew Professor Aaron D. Twerski with a Jewish Media All-Star Award. A leading legal scholar and educator, Professor Aaron Twerski is the Irwin and Jill Cohen Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, a former dean at Hofstra University School of Law, and […]
In 2026, the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC) will return to the Sundance Film Festival for the third time, once again serving as the only Jewish organization hosting an official panel on Jewish representation in film and television. JITC first brought this conversation to Sundance in 2023, where its inaugural panel drew a […]
At JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, Amazon’s “Destination NBA” documentary received a Jewish Media Award — in part for featuring observant Jewish professional basketball star Ryan Turell and sharing his powerful story with the world. Accepting the award, Executive Producer Dave Check shared why Ryan’s presence in […]
I was an Orthodox Jewish kid growing up in a small, out-of-town Jewish community when a commercial on the Disney Channel for a new movie stopped me cold. At first, it looked like every other made-for-TV sports story: a struggling basketball team, an unlikely coach, a familiar underdog arc. And then something caught my eye. […]
When Jew in the City released our now-viral Like a Jew video, actor Simon Feil didn’t stop at “liking” it — he recognized himself in it, and said so publicly. “This is so hard to watch because I do it too,” he wrote in a comment that immediately stood out. “I’ve learned what the industry […]
By the late 1990s, Kevin Bright had everything most people dream of. As an executive producer of Friends, he was shaping one of the most iconic shows in television history. But while millions connected to the six friends on screen, Kevin felt disconnected from something he once knew intimately: his own Jewish life. As a […]
