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Announcing JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards!

When we set out to build a Hollywood Bureau for Jews in 2021, the idea was to do the same programs that every other Hollywood Bureau was doing for decades: academic entertainment studies to show the depictions of Jews with data (stay tuned for our upcoming study with the Norman Lear Center), build fact sheets, […]

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Do Sephardic Jews Have Their Own Language Like Yiddish?

Dear Jew in the City, Do Sephardic Jews have their own language like Yiddish? Sincerely, Sara They sure do. It’s commonly called Ladino. (It’s also known by a few other names, but we’ll come to that.) Ladino started among Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century. Originally a dialect of Old […]

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This NYPost Reporter Wrote An Authentic Novel About Orthodox Jews

Mainstream media loves to glorify stories of Orthodox Jews who flee their communities. Reuven Fenton, a New York Post writer and second time novelist, flips the script on this trope. His new novel Goyhood, distributed by Simon and Schuster, tells the story of Georgia-born Mayer Belkin who thought he was a Jew, but finds out […]

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