Shalom Goodman never planned to start a nonprofit. He had made it, career-wise—working his dream job as an SEO editor at The Wall Street Journal, helping shape stories for one of the most influential ...

Dear Jew in the City, Jewish voices have long been active in civil rights movements and efforts to stand with the underdog. What sources in Jewish text or tradition do you think have most inspired ...

At the 2nd JITC Media Awards, singer/songwriter Aaron Holder lit up the stage with a moving performance with a simple message- as Jews, we’re not sorry for living. His song honors the IDF and ...

Last week we married off our daughter, our eldest, to a wonderful young man, in the hills of Jerusalem. The groom, like our daughter, chose to leave the place he was born and return to our ancestral ...

Rabbi Jack Abramowitz says on July 25, 2014 . Thanks for your comments. You are correct that I do not address every possible nuance or position – the hashkafa of my own kids’ (“yeshivishe”) schools, ...

In 1989, Senator Joe Lieberman made history as the first Orthodox Jewish Senator, at which point questions arose as to how he would deal with voting if a national emergency occurred on Shabbos. He ...

In early 2023, JITC Hollywood Bureau heard that podcaster Erin Foster was creating a series loosely based on her life. How she, a non-Jewish woman, fell in love with, converted, and married a Jewish ...

One does not have to look far to see misinformed claims that Jews are “white Europeans” and “genetically European” widely circulating. Of course, these incorrect assertions are driven by an ...

Editor’s note: Last month, the Motion Picture Academy Museum added an exhibit on the Jewish founders of Hollywood after they had been conspicuously left out at the museum’s founding in 2021. While ...

We’re living through unprecedented times in America. In my lifetime, I hoped I would never see the vitriol and antisemitic that my Jewish ancestors went through. I felt confident that “never again” ...

Orthodox women are often stereotyped as being nothing more than a slave to the household, relegated to standing in the back of a shul. The thing is, many Orthodox women take pride in the way they take ...

“I’m really glad I’m a part of this.” In Adam Sandler’s new Netflix film, You’re So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah, for me the line that summed up the essence of the film, was when protagonist Stacy ...