In Response To Vogue’s “Torah-Teacher Aesthetic”

Why Are Long Skirts Only Fashionable Outside of a Jewish Lens? When I was becoming more Jewishly observant, one of the last things I gave up were my jeans. While some girls were happily tossing theirs overboard, I held tightly onto mine. For so long, they were me. After a trip to Israel I went […]

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“You People” Normalizes Farrakhan’s Views On Jews

The following movie review began with angry texts I sent to friends and colleagues yesterday, as I was watching You People, the number one movie now streaming on Netflix. It premiered on Holocaust Remembrance Day, and I’ve got to hand it to them on the timing: nothing says #neveragain like #rightnow. There are numerous spoilers […]

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The Marginalized Group Inclusion Spaces Forgot to Include

In November, our JITC Hollywood Bureau attended the Television Academy’s DEI summit where they told us to be brave and asked if they had missed any points. I was. They had. I explained that they had forgotten the Jews. An academic entertainment group at UCLA, Scholars and Storytellers, heard by impassioned speech and wanted me […]

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