Four years ago, Jew in the City stood outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza with a simple message: Orthodox Jews deserve fair representation. At the time, NBC’s Nurses had aired an episode that grotesquely and inaccurately depicted Hasidic Jews. The portrayal sparked outrage across the Jewish community. But instead of simply protesting, we chose to do something […]
Several weeks ago JITC (Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema) Hollywood Bureau hosted an official panel at Sundance Film Festival on Jewish representation in media. We presented the findings from our groundbreaking study conducted with the Norman Lear Center at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The research examines how general Jewish characters—and also […]
More and more often these days, we are seeing that even if a show or film is not perfect from a Jewish representation perceptive, there is a lot to celebrate. That’s exactly how I would describe Netflix’s new cartoon dramedy by Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Long Story Short. Let’s start with the good. Spoiler alerts ahead. Jewish […]
At the 2nd Annual Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, “The Patient” received the Keter Shem Tov Award for its authentic religious details and joyful Jewish storytelling. In their acceptance speech, the creators said: “We’d like to especially thank the entire team at FX Networks and Disney for only getting […]
At the 2nd Annual Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, UTA agent Jacob Fenton presented the Keter Shem Tov Award to the creators and producers of “The Patient” for their authentic religious details and joyful Jewish storytelling. “According to a soon-to-be-released study in partnership with JITC and the Norman Lear […]
