When most people think of celebrity chef and Orthodox Jewish All Star, Jamie Geller, the obvious image that springs to mind is an aproned, spatula-wielding author of several best-selling kosher cookbooks, and most notably, Joy of Kosher. However, Geller’s professional origin story begins not behind a counter, but behind a camera. As a child growing […]
When I grew up we always sorted trash: our trash, the synagogue’s trash, even the neighbors’ trash! This was the 1980’s – so not only did we sort trash, as these were the days before curbside pickup, we stored everyone’s recycling in our garage and brought it to the recycling center ourselves. We had recycling bins built […]
Can Haredi Women Learn to Lean In? – Livia Levine, a management teacher at a Haredi women’s college discusses the cultural and religious norms that prevent (even the women in college studying management) from believing they can succeed in business Candy-Making Holocaust Survivor Believed to Be World’s Oldest Man – The Polish-born Auschwitz survivor, Yisrael Kristal, 112, achieved that […]
Why did we film “Hasidic Jews Watching Select Scenes from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ for the First Time?” STAY TUNED for the video – coming soon!
Fundamentally Freund: The Stirring Revival of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim – “More than five centuries after the forced conversion to Catholicism of large numbers of Sicilian Jews, followed by the expulsion of the rest, a nascent rebirth is well underway, as growing numbers of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim (“Marranos”) now seek to embrace the heritage of their ancestors.” […]
Best Foreign Language Film is not usually the most talked about award at the Golden Globes, but it will be this year – at least for the Jewish community! Last night at the 73rd annual Golden Globe awards, Son of Saul, a Hungarian film about the Holocaust won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language […]
