Last year, at a car rental company, a Muslim man from Iraq who was bringing us our car, noticed my younger son, who looks the most like me of all of our children, replete with olive skin. It was the end of January, and even so, both my son and I looked brown. The Iraqi […]
Joe Roberts grew up with a Christmas tree in his Dayton Ohio home, with an abundance of gifts to open the morning of December 25. He didn’t celebrate Chanukah, Rosh Hashanah or Passover. While he knew he was Jewish, Judaism didn’t have an active presence in his house. He comes from a line of secular […]
If I could take a guess, I would say Hasidic Judaism and lingerie don’t often go hand in hand in the minds of many out there. Often, the narrative presented in the media is that couples can only have sex through a sheet, or in shows like Unorthodox, solely at the whim of one’s husband. […]
When I lived in Russia a few years ago and was traveling back after a trip to the States, the passport control officer asked me to remove my headscarf. It was a long flight and I don’t travel with a wig on my head. As an Orthodox woman, I do cover my hair with a […]
Dear Jew in the City, Is there anything we can look to within Jewish sources to understand the blood libel accusations against Jews when Jews uniquely value life? Sincerely, Samuel Dear Samuel, Thanks for your question. The short answer is no. The longer answer is also no. Jewish sources are great for explaining why […]
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 […]
