The pain of the Ukrainian war is getting more palpable by the day. The one thing easing the sting is seeing the beauty of people and organizations coming together to help. The Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization of Orthodox Jewish groups, has raised more than $2 million for Ukraine since the Russian invasion […]
For the past three and a half years, I’ve lived in Moscow, Russia. It’s been a journey filled with ups and downs and adventure and challenge alike. Little did I know, it would turn into a home that I would need to abruptly depart from while nine months pregnant during a war. Let’s backtrack for […]
Exactly a year ago today, Jew in the City started a social media firestorm which ended with NBC removing an episode of “Nurses” that featured blatant anti-Semitism in its plot line. The episode, “Achilles Heel” includes a scene in which a young, Hasidic man named Israel is in the hospital for a shattered leg. A doctor […]
In 2009, actress Mayim Bialik was made over on TLC’s What Not To Wear. (The episode recently aired on Hulu.) As one of Mayim’s close friends, the show asked me to be interviewed about Mayim’s style. I was super excited to appear on television for the first time and freaked out about what I would […]
Unfortunately, Orthodox Jews have notoriously been portrayed as dissenters of Western medicine and modern mental health services. TV shows and the media often share a narrative that these communities are cut off from the modern world entirely, but a new study has shown that’s actually not the case. When going through low grade anxiety and […]
While Whoopi Goldberg just returned to The View after a two week suspension due to insensitive remarks about the Holocaust not being about racism and it simply being about “white on white fighting,” The View has an anti-Jewish history that long proceeded this event. In 2009, The View co-hosts had fun slandering Orthodox Judaism and […]
