Everyone’s talking about Nobody Wants This – the rom-com with “the hot rabbi” who loves being Jewish, the shiksa goddess who has a refreshing curiosity for his faith, and some nagging, stereotypical Jewish women and their henpecked husbands. While the series makes some improvements in Jewish representation, there are numerous problematic elements to the story. […]
Curb Your Enthusiasm just aired its series finale this week, which gives me an opportunity to discuss a question that’s been on my mind for some time: is Larry David’s representation good for the Jews? Let’s start off by stating the positive – the man is hilarious and a comedic genius. I never watched the […]
Hollywood has a Jewish problem. It might feel unexpected when Jews are the ones who created Hollywood when they couldn’t get into another industry, but it’s a very real problem we’re facing today. Jewish roles are being given to non-Jews — something that wouldn’t fly with another minority group. Jewish tropes and erasure are often […]
Jewish power and blood libels are millennia old tropes. Ashakenazi Jews as “white Europeans” is a neo-Nazi canard, called the Khazar theory, that has shockingly been bolstered in Hollywood. Jew in the City, which launched the first and only Hollywood Bureau for Jewish representation in 2021 returned to Sundance for the second year in a […]
Jew in the City — in connection with its Hollywood Bureau — has penned a letter to the Motion Picture Academy in an effort to get Jews included in Hollywood diversity. At this time, there are no guidelines to include Jews while there are regulations when it comes to other minority inclusion. The Motion Picture […]
When Israel was brutally attacked on October 7 in ways most people wouldn’t even be able to imagine, Jews came together. We united in spirit, in prayer and in action — sending money and any resource our Israeli family could need. Jews were using their own skills and talents to contribute. Dylan Kaplan, a producer […]
