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Dear Jew in the City, With the Presidential Inauguration coming up, I was wondering what Judaism has to say about inaugurations, especially of a new king, and was the transition of power always smooth? Curious in Georgia Dear Curious in Georgia, Well, for starters, kings don’t have inaugurations, they have coronations, but let’s call that a […]
Ani l’doni v’dodi li – I am to my Beloved and my Beloved is to me. (Song of Songs 6:3) The Hebrew letters at the start of these four words form the word Elul, the name of the month preceding Rosh Hashana. With the “beloveds” at the center of Song of Songs being metaphors for […]
It was the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college and I had an internship at a prestigious public relations firm in NYC. A friend’s brother helped me snag the internship — my first big one. While I was excited about it, and learning a lot, a career in magazines was my big dream. […]
While some who celebrate Shavuos do so with dairy, many of us are either lactose-intolerant (hi, we’re Jewish!) or are plant-based for health or ethical reasons. But that doesn’t mean a Shavuos menu filled just with raw vegetables or tofu; skipping the dairy doesn’t mean we’re avoiding deliciousness at all as you can see by […]
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In a world obsessed with devices, it occurred to me that we are living in an age where silence dominates many situations. Silence between couples, silence between families, silence everywhere you turn as people tap, tap, tap on their devices. What an isolating existence. But what if there was an antidote to silence? What if […]
Big Bang Theory star, Mayim Bialik, asks Jew in the City can science and religion work together in a Jewish framework? While there are some Orthodox Jews who believe in a literal account of the creation story, many of us hold that the events must be understood another way. RAMBAM, also known as Maimonides, stated […]
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When Jew in the City released our now-viral Like a Jew video, actor Simon Feil didn’t stop at “liking” it — he recognized himself in it, and said so publicly. “This is so hard to watch because I do it too,” he wrote in a comment that immediately stood out. “I’ve learned what the industry […]
In a week when many Jews were glued to the New York City mayoral race with anxiety and dread, a very different kind of story was unfolding quietly in the Midwest. In University Heights — a suburb of Cleveland with the largest concentration of Orthodox Jews in Ohio — Michele Weiss, an Orthodox Jewish woman, […]
