We are painfully aware that news media and social media have exploded with horrific blood libels and lies since October 7, but Jewish depictions in Hollywood were quite problematic long before that. In the last few years, Jews were represented as moneyed and scheming (“Cobra Kai”), benefiting from the slave trade (“You People”) and committing […]
Emmy-winning television producer Kevin Bright, best known as executive producer and director of the landmark NBC sitcom FRIENDS, will be honored at the 3rd Jewish Media Awards, the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC) Hollywood Bureau announced today, alongside Donny Deutsch, renowned American advertising executive, television personality, and regular commentator on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. […]
Football has always been my favorite sport because of how much it requires of the player both physically and mentally, but I never dreamed that it would one day impact me spiritually. In 2004, when I spent the year studying in yeshiva in Jerusalem, on Saturday nights, I would play flag football in the American Football […]
The 25th anniversary of the falling of the Twin Towers is on Sunday. Like many, I have distinct memories of September 11, 2001: I was in second grade, and was already in my Brooklyn classroom davening shacharis by the time the first plane crashed into the North Tower. While understanding the gravity of the situation, […]
For an animator, a job at Disney is the ultimate achievement, and for Saul Blinkoff it was no different. He landed his dream job in his twenties, after years of working towards that goal, made a few movies, and then at a moment when he literally had “the whole package” – he did something unexpected. […]
Millions of Bravo viewers first met Barbie Pascual on Below Deck, where she made an unexpected confession: “I know my soul is Jewish.” At the time, she hadn’t yet formally begun converting to Orthodox Judaism. By the time Pascual returned to the franchise most recently on Below Deck Down Under, that journey had become a […]
