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 […]

One of our All Stars at JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, Sharon Mazel aspired to work in television and be a journalist. People cast doubt on her dream because she was religious and ‘there are no frum Jews in television.’ She persisted and eventually landed a job, during which she was asked to work Friday […]

“I just shot a show with Courtney Cox. She said to me, don’t you have to go? Don’t you have daf yomi in the morning? She didn’t call it daf yomi, she called it ‘your Jewish learning thing.’ But I like that Courtney Cox knows that I learn daf yomi.” Hear from Jeff Astrof, who […]

“Every ailment I had had cure in Torah. I had tried everybody else’s path and now it was time to try mine.”