At just 17 years old, Orthodox Jewish virtuoso violinist Nesya Fertel has already built an impressive musical résumé. A student at Los Angeles’s prestigious Colburn School, where she studies under renowned violin instructor Robert Lipsett, Nesya has performed internationally as a soloist and earned recognition in major competitions. But as she began pursuing a professional […]
When Chef Raz Shabtai’s North Miami restaurant, Mutra, became the world’s first kosher restaurant to earn a Michelin star earlier this year, it marked a historic moment for kosher fine dining—and challenged long-held assumptions about what kosher cuisine can be. For Shabtai, who grew up in Jerusalem surrounded by his beloved grandmother’s cooking and hospitality, […]
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, […]
