I was an Orthodox Jewish kid growing up in a small, out-of-town Jewish community when a commercial on the Disney Channel for a new movie stopped me cold. At first, it looked like every other made-for-TV sports story: a struggling basketball team, an unlikely coach, a familiar underdog arc. And then something caught my eye.

Was that a yar...

When Jew in the City released our now-viral Like a Jew video, actor Simon Feil didn’t stop at “liking” it — he recognized himself in it, and said so publicly.

“This is so hard to watch because I d...

When Chanukah came on Tuesday night, I was drained like I haven’t been drained in quite some time. My baby had begun teething the night before and had woken up half a dozen times. My older son (who’s been screaming out randomly at night) also woke up several times. Despite barely sleeping, I had to get out early to meet a friend that morning and then...

*Note on featured image above: This was me at Bondi Beach, Australia in 2015. I was on a speaking tour of Australia through Chabad of Sydney and Melbourne.

This past week was one for the books in the most horrific sense. First, we saw never released footage of six of the hostages who were murdered in Hamas captivity lighting Chanukah...

In a week when many Jews were glued to the New York City mayoral race with anxiety and dread, a very different kind of story was unfolding quietly in the Midwest. In University Heights — a suburb of Cleveland with the largest concentration of Orthodox Jews in Ohio — Michele Weiss, an Orthodox Jewish woman, accountant, nonprofit founder, and longtime community builder, was ele...