For years, the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema has observed the same patterns in Hollywood: Jewish characters reduced to familiar tropes, Jewish identity flattened into caricature, and Jewish stories told through a narrow lens that rarely reflects the depth or dignity of real Jewish life. Those observations were recently confirmed by data. JITC’s Jews […]
After a star-studded and incredibly inspirational 2nd JITC Jewish Media Awards this past November in Lincoln Center with studio and agency reps in attendance, we are thrilled to start planing the next one. JITC’s 3rd Jewish Media Awards will yet again be: The Greatest Night In Jewish Representation. When we launched JITC (Jewish Institute for […]
“I had a conversation with our former CFO, Mark Graf, and I asked him point blank, ‘Am I limited in how far I can go because of my religious observance?’ And he just flat out immediately was like, ‘Absolutely not… it’s a question of who’s qualified for the job. If you’re qualified for the job, […]
Today our daughter, our oldest child, got engaged in Jerusalem, the city where she was born 21 years ago to a wonderful young man who also chose to make the holy land his home. The wedding will be here too, be’H, *perhaps the first time anyone in our family has been married in Israel in […]
Good evening and welcome to JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards: The Greatest Night in Jewish Representation. Welcome esteemed honorees, presenters, and studio executives joining us here tonight from Disney, Paramount, Amazon, Sony, and Netflix. The last time we gathered in this prestigious hall for a night of immense Jewish pride was in December 2019. None […]
Our Annual Campaign starts today, and we are calling upon you, our Jew in the City family, to support our mission so we can expand our efforts. Our donors are the key to our continued success and your support helps us change the world in meaningful ways, whether it’s combating antisemitism through creating authentic depictions of Jews in Hollywood, […]
