A year and a half ago, an Orthodox Jewish woman from Belgium reached out to Jew in the City. There were crews in her city, filming something for Netflix about Hasidic Jews. She was worried that it wasn’t going to end well. She noted that there were locals, from the Hasidic community, who were working […]

Growing up, as a proud secular Jewish kid in New Jersey, I experienced some antisemitism in public school from time to time. My mother warned us that every country eventually tires of its Jews, and one day we might have to pack and run. But it seemed that society had mostly progressed in modern times […]

I am regularly accused of being an apologist for the Orthodox community by those who have left observance and are angry, while simultaneously accused of being too negative by community insiders who don’t want to discuss the problems. I hope my analysis will not disappoint either group. I’ve always tried to approach issues with nuance, […]

Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers and is always observed on the first Monday of September.  It began in the late 1800’s, when labor activists lobbied for a federal holiday to acknowledge the many contributions workers have made to America’s workforce. While media usually highlights the negative stories […]

On Sunday, as I made my way home from our Passover vacation, I received a troubling notification on Instagram. One of our readers tipped us off that a Jewish comedian named Judy Gold had posted a video of a very distasteful joke she made about a Hasidic woman not only being physically assaulted, but how […]

Eric Adams is breaking boundaries in an effort to represent all members of the constituency he serves. He appointed Joel Eisdorfer, a Hasidic Jew and political activist to serve as his senior advisor last Tuesday evening.  This makes Eisdorfer the first Hasidic senior advisor to Mayor Adams as well as the first Hasidic Jew serving […]