Next month Marvel plans to debut their first openly Jewish superhero on Disney+. This should be cause for celebration in an age of desired minority representation, but representation only matters if the minority themselves are included in their story. JNS reports: “…Moon Knight, the son of a rabbi and the alter-ego of Marc Spector, a […]
When “My Unorthodox Life” came out on Netflix last summer, Julia Haart became the latest spokes- woman for the Orthodox world — and not in a positive way. She spoke openly about how she left an ultra-religious community plagued with fundamentalism and oppression — that she wasn’t allowed to be educated, seen, heard, or even choose […]
Flip through the news and you’ll see that the winter Olympics are in full force. You will hear recaps of who won which medal and who fell flat. At the same time, there seems to be an alarming silence around the very controversial choice of location. The Olympics this year is hosted by China, a […]
Before you assume that I’m condoning her statement that the Holocaust was not about race, hear me out. Whoopi was definitely wrong in her statement that the Nazi genocide was about two groups of white people, and that comment was potentially harmful, especially as research shows that many Americans are misinformed about the Holocaust, with only 62% knowing […]
When COVID-19 hit, not only did the entire world experience fear and illness, but life as we knew it shut down and we began repeating the same day over and over. Cue Groundhog Day. While the actual day today, February 2nd, involves an age-old tradition in which a groundhog looks for his shadow as a […]
Mark Oppenheimer, an author of five books and a freelance writer, recently wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in response to the Texas synagogue hostage-taking saying that that anti-Semitism present in today’s America only targets those who wish to practice Judaism or look identifiably Jewish. Fifty years ago, Jews were experiencing prejudice across […]
