If you tell Lily Brasch she can’t do something, odds are she’ll prove you wrong. On Friday, the Orthodox Jewish model became the first woman with muscular dystrophy to walk the runway at New York fashion week unassisted. She is the second person ever with the condition to appear — the first was actress and model […]
Unless you’re new around here, you know Jew in the City has been on a mission to fight AntiSemitism on screen. It seems like a simple ask — authentic representation of Jews in TV and in movies — yet is an uphill battle that sometimes feels like quite the slow climb. This past Sunday, however, […]
While Lubavitch Hasidim tend to wear black and white, Chana Corna, a lighting artist for TV shows and movies, adds black and white into animations as a member of the lighting design department. Corna was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and moved with her family to Sydney when she was four-years-old. “My dad has always […]
There’s something funny about Ashley Blaker – an internationally acclaimed comedian who has performed on five continents and appeared on TV and radio across the world. The New York Times called him “A skilled joke teller,” and that, “He is proof that even the most reverent enjoy a little irreverence.” As an Orthodox Jewish comedian […]
Jori Epstein isn’t a typical sports reporter covering the NFL: She’s an Orthodox Jewish woman. The 26-year-old Dallas resident covers the Dallas Cowboys for USA Today. She has just written a book inspired by a congregant at her shul, a Holocaust survivor, to acclaim. The Upstander: How Surviving the Holocaust Sparked Max Glauben’s Mission to […]
When Covid brought his video business to a standstill last spring, Orthodox Jewish cinematographer Elie Gabor (Jew in the City’s director of photography) tapped into his inner-Yosef (Joseph). As in, “The Yosef,” the one we’re currently reading about in the weekly parsha. “All of a sudden, all my shoots started dropping like flies,” Elie recalls. […]
