Jewish Journal

Filmmakers Gather to Advocate For Better Jewish Portrayals in Media

Jew in the City’s new Hollywood Bureau of the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema and Marcus Freed’s Jewish Filmmakers ...
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After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews engage with the world more than ever

NEW YORK (AP) — Frieda Vizel left an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in New York in a crisis of faith at 25. But instead of cutting ties, she became a successful online personality and guide to the ...
Times Union

Jewish Film Festival to spotlight Gene Wilder, LGBTQ+ life, other topics

American actor Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” in 1971. A documentary about the late comic genius, “Remembering Gene Wilder, ” will launch the Jewish Film ...
The Forward

In Charlie Kirk, Orthodox Jews found a champion — and a wedge

A faux book cover made the rounds recently in Jewish WhatsApp groups — The Life and Legacy of Charlie Kirk, written by Orthodox commentator Ben Shapiro and published by ArtScroll, a company with a ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews engage with the world more than ever

Tour participants walk past an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man during a tour by Frieda Vizel of the Hasidic section of Williamsburg in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP ...