It is not an exaggeration to say that every Jewish person has a family story rooted in persecution. The roots of Judaism are synonymous with adaptation, expulsion, and regrowth. Even though these ...

Thanks for your question. Before I answer, let tell you about the expression “luck of the Irish,” because it doesn’t mean what people think it means. It may not be the case so much now, but in ...

A week ago, I found out I had made a list. Not a list of honors or achievements, but a list of Canadian-Israeli soldiers, published in an article that has been widely condemned as a hit piece against ...

When I was young, my mom brought me with her to a shiva house for a woman whose husband had died. I didn’t really know the woman or her husband, but for some reason, when I got there, I decided to ...

Ah, Hollywood. The land of glitz, glamour, and, apparently, rewriting history for future generations. The latest example? The Oscar-winning “No Other Land,” a film that presents itself as hard-hitting ...

My friend has been crying endless tears for Israel. She is a proud American Reform Jew who has been overcome with grief since October 7. She’s a redhead, who’s been especially hit hard by the tragic ...

Being a proud Jew in Hollywood isn’t easy these days, especially in a time when the best documentary at the Oscars goes to a pro-Palestinian film, where the filmmakers call what is happening in Gaza ...

My neighborhood has been covered in orange balloons since news broke last week that the orange-haired Bibas brothers, Ariel and Kfir, were brutally murdered by Hamas. Israeli forensic teams discovered ...

“If you look at Iron Dome and you cannot see God, then you don’t know who God is.” Ari Sacher is a primary engineer who worked on the Iron Dome, which protects Israel from rockets 90% of the time. He ...

We just discovered that the Bibas bodies have been unburied for over a year. What does Jewish law say about when to bury a body and why is it this way? Thanks for your question. Usually, when someone ...

“I had a conversation with our former CFO, Mark Graf, and I asked him point blank, ‘Am I limited in how far I can go because of my religious observance?’ And he just flat out immediately was like, ...

Dear Jew in the City, With the recent viral deepfake video of Jewish celebrities calling out Kanye, I got to wondering how Judaism views AI. There certainly seem to be ethical issues with it. What ...