Orthodox Jewish All Star, Joyce Azria, Former Creative Director: BCBGeneration
“Every ailment I had had cure in Torah. I had tried everybody else’s path and now it was time to try mine.”
“Every ailment I had had cure in Torah. I had tried everybody else’s path and now it was time to try mine.”
“Orthodox Judaism, Torah, I infuse it into my life and it provides a springboard for me to enhance my life, and [it puts] meaning in everything that I do.”
Shema Yisroel. We are told this as a primary commandment. We recite it twice everyday and then once more as we lay in bed. Hashem commands us to “Hear!” But what are we supposed to hear? This is a huge command which encompasses many different dimensions but one aspect must be to hear the life […]
Good evening, and welcome to Jew in the City’s Hollywood Bureau Launch and 1st Media Awards. With Purim having recently passed, it gives me an excuse to talk about it! But the truth is that there are many connections between this holiday and how our organization got to this point. Purim is a story about […]
When Moshe Margaretten, a haredi “fixer” with a passion for helping Jews out of dangerous situations learned that Afghanistan’s last Jew was refusing to leave the country, he pivoted. Instead, he helped to extract dozens of other Afghans to escape the crisis-torn country. Zebulon Simantov, the last Jew in Kabul, is refusing to leave Afghanistan […]
While Raizy Silberstein Greenbaum was raised in a black hat Orthodox Jewish community, her career took her to Broonklyn’s Black community where she had the privilege of connecting with and impacting hundreds of children. Today she is an assistant principal at Erasmus Hall. Born in Lakewood, New Jersey, “living a very enclosed life,” Greenbaum attended Bais […]