Football has always been my favorite sport because of how much it requires of the player both physically and mentally, but I never dreamed that it would one day impact me spiritually. In 2004, when I spent the year studying in yeshiva in Jerusalem, on Saturday nights, I would play flag football in the American Football […]
Dear Jew in the City, On a recent flight after dealing with hours of a cancelation, a reschedule and then a delay, I finally boarded the plane with numerous other exhausted passengers. I noticed quite a few fellow Orthodox Jews on this flight, the one closest to me was a twenty-something guy with a […]
At JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, Shifra Kolsky, Controller & Chief Accounting Officer at Discover, was honored with an Orthodox Jewish All-Star Award for proudly living her observant Jewish identity while excelling in a leading profession. In her acceptance speech, Kolsky reflected: “I am acutely aware that […]
It’s not commonplace to reach the highest rungs of the U.S. government. Rarer still? A Chinese-speaking Hasidic Jew being Senate-confirmed to a top role. That’s the story of Mitchell Silk, who served as Assistant Secretary for International Markets at the U.S. Department of Treasury — the first Hasidic Jew to hold a presidentially-nominated, Senate-confirmed position. […]
When picturing an Orthodox Jewish woman, most people conjure up an image of a lady carrying a baby, not a gun. But for Ariella Loew, it seemed like there was no reason she couldn’t do both! Loew grew up in Lincolnwood, just outside of Chicago in an Orthodox family and though she had never seen […]
In Texas’s Hill Country, floodwaters swallowed everything—homes, livestock, lives. Yet in the midst of the devastation, one small Jewish outpost stands as a beacon of hope. Rabbi Yossi and Malkie Marrus never imagined their quiet Chabad House would transform into a regional hub for relief. But as torrential rains swept through over July 4th weekend—carving […]
