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When Australian journalist Nikki Goldstein was placed into a medically induced coma in September 2022, doctors warned her family to prepare for the worst.
Goldstein, who had long struggled with chronic lung disease, had entered the hospital believing she had another chest infection. Instead, her condition deteriorated rapidly. By her second day in the ICU, doctors told...
What does it mean to “act like a Jew”?
For decades, television and film have often answered that question through tired stereotypes: neurotic, greedy, awkward, entitled, loud. But Jew in the City’s Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema’s award-winning video Like a Jew set out to offer a very different answer — one grounded in kindness, justice, compassion...
“I’d like to thank the Academy.” That’s how I opened my presentation at the Television Academy earlier this week, and everybody laughed. But I explained that it wasn’t really a joke.
My colleague, Cindy Kaplan (director, JITC Hollywood Bureau), and I were presenting our Norman Lear Center research on Jewish television representation to a packed room of entertainment pr...
Dear Jew in the City-
If there’s no Temple anymore, why are we still counting an Omer that’s not even being brought? Didn’t other Temple-related actives just cease after its destruction?
Thanks,
Losing Count Already
Dear Count,
That’s a pretty good question. Let’s first explain what “counting the omer” is.
Leviticus ...