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 […]
When we set out to build a Hollywood Bureau for Jews in 2021, the idea was to do the same programs that every other Hollywood Bureau was doing for decades: academic entertainment studies to show the depictions of Jews with data (stay tuned for our upcoming study with the Norman Lear Center), build fact sheets, […]
Update 1/28/26: AJ Edelman, an American-Israeli athlete who represented Israel in men’s skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics, will lead Israel’s first-ever qualified bobsleigh team at the 2026 Milan–Cortina Games. The historic team includes Menachem Chen, Ward Fawarseh, and Omer Katz, with Uri Zisman heading to Italy as an alternate — marking a major milestone […]
Meet Orthodox Jewish All Star – Dr. Jeremy England – award-winning MIT physicist who many call “the next Darwin”!! “I don’t think there is any problem being a scientist while also having a commitment to Hakadosh Baruch Hu and Torah…those who see a strong tension there either need to have a subtler understanding of the […]
Mayim Bialik is already a star on-screen — she was the title character in Blossom early on in her life and then continued her rise as Amy on The Big Bang Theory. She has been a longtime friend to Jew in the City and its founder, Allison Josephs. Now, Mayim is out with a new film […]
Good evening, and welcome to Jew in the City’s Hollywood Bureau Launch and 1st Media Awards. With Purim having recently passed, it gives me an excuse to talk about it! But the truth is that there are many connections between this holiday and how our organization got to this point. Purim is a story about […]
