In 2026, the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC) will return to the Sundance Film Festival for the third time, once again serving as the only Jewish organization hosting an official panel ...

At JITC’s 2nd Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, Amazon’s “Destination NBA” documentary received a Jewish Media Award — in part for featuring observant 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 ...

In 2021, Jew in the City launched The Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema (JITC), the only Hollywood Bureau fighting for better representation for all Jews. Then, in early 2023, JITC Hollywood ...

The world was shaking this week, and it had nothing to do with the Presidential election. It was because of the death of Rabbi Dovid Feinstein, the renowned Halachic authority, who passed away last ...

Last Thursday, Ye, formerly known as (Kanye West) apologized to the Jewish people. He had a friend named DJ Akademiks post a video on X of his meeting with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto asking for ...

Thanks for your question. Those sidecurls are called “peiyot” in Hebrew, meaning corners. This is commonly Yiddishized as “peiyes” and is usually rendered in English in a variety of ...

Dear Jew in the City, Can we understand the fall of the Assad regime as the fall of Damascus described by Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai? Thanks for your question, which I didn’t understand at all. In asking ...

Now that the public has seen some (or all) of Netflix’s new series, My Unorthodox Life, the people who know Julia Haart (Talia Hendler) are forward to clarify that this show is almost more fiction ...

While Orthodox Jewish male headcoverings are pretty easy to spot, married Orthodox Jewish women’s head coverings range from more to less subtle, depending on the style choice and community the woman ...

After we recently reported on the offensive and inaccurate portrayal in NBC’s “Nurses,” and its subsequent removal, we thought it was important to explain how other episodes have missed the mark when ...

Thanks for your question. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I haven’t seen (and have no plans to see) Shtisel, so I can’t address that. But I can address the difference between Hasidic and Orthodox Jews.