Dear Jew in the City, With the recent Donald Trump/Elon Musk spat dominating headlines, what guidance does Jewish wisdom offer about how to argue passionately without crossing a line? How can we disagree better/respectfully, especially in such a polarized world? Sincerely, Kate   Dear Kate, Thanks for your question. I’ll share some thoughts on disagreeing, […]

Editor’s note: Last month, the Motion Picture Academy Museum added an exhibit on the Jewish founders of Hollywood after they had been conspicuously left out at the museum’s founding in 2021. While several reports indicate that the addition of the Jewish exhibit is steeped in antisemitism, Jews being excluded from recent museum exhibits seems to […]

Last year, at a car rental company, a Muslim man from Iraq who was bringing us our car, noticed my younger son, who looks the most like me of all of our children, replete with olive skin. It was the end of January, and even so, both my son and I looked brown. The Iraqi […]

Jew in the City — in connection with its Hollywood Bureau — has penned a letter to the Motion Picture Academy in an effort to get Jews included in Hollywood diversity. At this time, there are no guidelines to include Jews while there are regulations when it comes to other minority inclusion. The Motion Picture […]

Dear Social Justice Warrior, I think you misunderstood your antiracism training. You throw around fancy words like decolonization, and systemic oppression, and resistance, and somehow think that they mean “It’s okay to brutally murder Jews.” Social Justice Warrior, if this is “what decolonization looks like,” does that mean you would be okay if Native Americans […]

Maestro, an upcoming Netflix drama focusing on the life and love of Leonard Bernstein, just saw its first official trailer released to Youtube. Herein we see Bradley Cooper – a non-Jewish actor of European descent (i.e. a white actor) – taking up the role of the esteemed Jewish composer. If that act of whitewashing isn’t […]