Dear Jew in the City, I have a few Orthodox friends who are very pro-Israel, but I have also read that some forms of Orthodoxy are vehemently anti-Zionist. I’ve heard of other sects who completely ...

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 ...

In a time of rising antisemitism and increasing workplace hostility toward Jews, a quiet but powerful milestone was achieved inside one of the world’s most recognizable tech companies. Earlier this ...

Dear Jew in the City, With all the international attention on Israel’s war with Hamas, I’ve been hearing a lot of debate—both within the Jewish world and beyond—about whether Israel is obligated to ...

At the 2nd annual Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, showrunner, TV writer and executive producer Jeff Astrof was honored as an Orthodox Jewish All Star for his ...

When Orthodox Jewish U.S. Army Specialist Daniel Agami was killed by an improvised IED in Iraq, he was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart among several other honors, and his parents earned the ...

With a worldwide interest in K-Pop, Korean television dramas, and Kimchi, Korean pride is nothing new to Chana Bilek, an Orthodox Jew from South Korea, with equal pride in the cultures she calls her ...

Earlier this month, the Jewish world mourned the passing of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Lipskar z”l, founder of the Aleph Institute—an organization built on the belief that no Jewish soul should ever feel ...

You may have first met Fay Brezel on Jewish Matchmaking, the hit Netflix series where she quietly broke stereotypes by showing up as her full, authentic self: a proud Orthodox Jewish woman deeply ...

At the 2nd annual Jewish Media Awards, held at Lincoln Center on November 12, 2024, Netflix’s Jewish Matchmaking was honored with the Keter Shem Tov Award for authentic Jewish representation in global ...

Two thousand years ago, the great Torah sage Rabbi Akiva, who was considered to be the best teacher of the generation, had scores of his students die between the period of Passover and Shavuot.

Dear Jew in the City, With all the recent media attention on the Vatican and the process of selecting a new pope through a conclave, I was wondering—does Judaism have anything remotely similar? Is ...