“If you look at Iron Dome and you cannot see God, then you don’t know who God is.” Ari Sacher is a primary engineer who worked on the Iron Dome, which protects Israel from rockets 90% of the time. He is also an observant Jew who sees the miracles occurring in Israel every day. Hear […]

“I had a conversation with our former CFO, Mark Graf, and I asked him point blank, ‘Am I limited in how far I can go because of my religious observance?’ And he just flat out immediately was like, ‘Absolutely not… it’s a question of who’s qualified for the job. If you’re qualified for the job, […]

“I was their star teaching fellow but I couldn’t get a teaching job,” said Aaron Twerski. Looking the way he looked — like a Hasidic Jew — made it difficult for Twerski to attain a professor appointment at Harvard Law School, despite glowing reviews. Twerski went onto a pivotal role at the U.S. Department of […]

Mitchell Silk recalls the immense responsibility of working just steps from the White House, representing as an Orthodox Jew, where he faced a critical national security challenge. While navigating a complex sanctions issue, Silk came up with a breakthrough idea during Rosh Hashanah.

JITC’s 2nd Media Awards on November 12, 2024 hosted the most diverse audience ever – studio execs from—Sony, Paramount, Netflix,  Amazon—to Hasidim and everything in between. Founder and executive director, Allison Josephs, discovered that every other minority group had been advocating for themselves for decades in Hollywood, which is why she founded the JITC Hollywood […]