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Fundamentally Freund: The Stirring Revival of Sicily’s Bnei Anousim – “More than five centuries after the forced conversion to Catholicism of large numbers of Sicilia… Read More

For the third night, I thought I’d share a neat wallpaper by Robert Williams of Hebraic By Design and Dubya Designs. But first, I was also going to post a fun video by the Maccabeats… Read More

Why do we only fry latkes and donuts on Chanukah? Jew in the City, Jamie Geller (Joy of Kosher), Josh Jay ( The Maccabeats) and Mendy Pellin (Jewbellish) team up to blind taste test all the… Read More

Donald Trump Taps Hardline Orthodox Attorney as Israel Ambassador Donald Trump has nominated David Friedman, a Jewish Orthodox bankruptcy lawyer, to serve as his ambassador to Israel. Fried… Read More

by Reb Akiva @ Mystical Paths HAPPY CHANUKAH night #3 (one of my children’s favorite Chanukah story books was A Story for Night Number 3 by Matisiyahu Chaim Dov Ber Tzvi – so nig… Read More

The Jews Who Saved Monticello Thomas Jefferson is buried at Monticello, his estate in Charlottesville, Virginia, along with Rachel Phillips Levy, a traditional Jew. How did a Jewish grave e… Read More

Art Garfunkel once summed up The Sound of Silence as “the inability of people to communicate with each other.” Jew in the City discovered “the sound of silence” of 20… Read More

Maccabeats’ Sounds of Silence Cover Turns Classic Into Call to Unplug The Times of Israel’s New Jersey newspaper partner was proud to share our new video. The call the Maccabeats… Read More

Herman Wouk: Remembrances The enduring appeal of Herman Wouk’s many novels speaks volumes — and though he’s well past the century mark, he’s still writing. The man wh… Read More

Too often, we see the worst in each other. This is true of all people and especially, and unfortunately, the Jewish people. We see the most extreme and negative element of the communities we… Read More

“Since everyone liked my ‘Shopping For Passover’ video so much, I made a Rosh Hashanah one with my kids and some of my friends from The Maccabeats. There’s singing… Read More

True Film Production loves the holiday season. From comedic classic films to inspiring holiday advertisements, we can’t get enough holiday video. To celebrate Hanukkah this year, we&rs… Read More

True Film Production loves the holiday season. From comedic classic films to inspiring holiday advertisements, we can’t get enough holiday video. To celebrate Hanukkah this year, we&rs… Read More

2017 has been a record-breaking year for Jew in the City, with our blog posts reaching over half a million unique visitors and our videos reaching over one million, we couldn’t do it w… Read More

The celebration of Purim in Israel like most Jewish holidays includes liturgy, Bible reading (Book of Esther) and food (hamentaschen). Unlike solemn holy days like Yom Kippur, Purim is the J… Read More

Passover (called Pesach in Hebrew) is one of the most important holidays in Judaism. It commemorates the escape of the Jews from slavery in Egypt, and is celebrated annually either in March… Read More

Passover (called Pesach in Hebrew) is one of the most important holidays in Judaism. It commemorates the escape of the Jews from slavery in Egypt, and is celebrated annually either in March… Read More

What’s it like to be Jewish and work at Google? While the holidays are often celebrated by the “Jewglers,” as they are known, Chanukah is particularly special. Google itsel… Read More

I know I don't blog here much, anymore, and I keep thinking about ending this blog, but it's my oldest and dearest blog, started on AOL back in 2004, so I keep it, posting infrequently. I do… Read More

2018 has been an amazing year for Jew in the City, with more eyes on our content, more impact made from our great reporting and more negative associations broken down about Orthodox Jews. Do… Read More

For the first time ever, Universal Recording Artist, Shulem Lemmer, and the Maccabeats will perform a song together at Jew in the City’s 6th Annual All Star Awards Show and Premiere Pa… Read More

Joe Teplow, co-founder of the non-profit Good Today wants to make giving a daily habit for the world over. He came up with this idea as a student in Yeshiva University and started building o… Read More

We are proud to present, “I See the Light,” featuring Orthodox Jewish All Stars Shulem Lemmer and The Maccabeats. Filmed before a live audience on December 1, 2019 at Lincoln Ce… Read More

I’ve written quite a bit about Hanukkah in previous posts, specifically about the significance of latkes as traditional food during this holiday and about the meaning of the… Read More