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 ...
Jew in the City’s new Hollywood Bureau of the Jewish Institute for Television & Cinema and Marcus Freed’s Jewish Filmmakers ...
Director Sandi DuBowski’s fascinating documentary “Sabbath Queen,” chronicling the 20-year journey in the life of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, a 39th generation Orthodox rabbi and drag queen, will be ...
A documentary about the civil rights protests in the summer of 1960 to desegregate a Maryland amusement park, involving Howard University students and Jewish supporters, opens this year’s landmark ...
A court decision allowing Israeli women to take the Chief Rabbinate’s exams is the latest sign of growing recognition for ...
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 ...