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Breathe in…and breathe out. If you’re anything like me, reports of rising antisemitism have you speed-dialing your therapist and questioning everything you know about the world. As Editor-in-Chief of Jew in the City, it’s literally my job to stay up to date on the latest antisemitic events. We haven’t been able to go a day […]
Dear Jew in the City, How can we celebrate our freedom this Passover when there are still hostages being held in Gaza? Sincerely, David Dear David, Thanks for your question. Shortly after the current war in Gaza began and antisemitism was being normalized in the U.S. (and elsewhere), I replied to a completely different […]
Although it was only a pretend cell phone it came really close to hitting my father’s head after my three year old son slung across the room the day we arrived in Israel for our yearly Passover trip. It played annoying music and had no volume control, but I had bought it the day before […]
Shlomit Malka is making religion even more fashionable. The stunning model and Israeli television host has nearly 400K followers on Instagram and has recently started connecting more to her Jewish spirituality. She now keeps Shabbat — she doesn’t use her phone or go out — and makes Kiddush at home. She wears her Moroccan and Ukrainian heritage […]
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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 Australian journalist Nikki Goldstein was placed into a medically induced coma in September 2022, doctors warned her family to prepare for the worst. Goldstein, who had long struggled with chronic lung disease, had entered the hospital believing she had another chest infection. Instead, her condition deteriorated rapidly. By her second day in the ICU, […]
What does it mean to “act like a Jew”? For decades, television and film have often answered that question through tired stereotypes: neurotic, greedy, awkward, entitled, loud. But Jew in the City’s Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema’s award-winning video Like a Jew set out to offer a very different answer — one grounded in […]
