Jew in the City

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Upon looking for an image for this piece, our initial search was for blood splatter, but we kept coming across blood stained flowers. That set off an alarm and we looked up blood stained flower symbolism. They symbolize the martyrs of resistance. While we can’t be sure of this connection in the music video below, it sure is a strange coinci...

A.C. Allen is a graduate of Howard University and a former New York Post crime reporter-turned-TV writer who has been staffed on CRISIS (NBC), SLEEPY HOLLOW (FOX), REBEL (BET), SWAT (CBS) and KUNG FU (CW). She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Yael Green is a TV writer who has written for Phys...

This week, a documentary called The Darkest Light, about singer and spiritual leader Shlomo Carlebach’s sexual abuse of women premiered. In the last couple of weeks, the Jewish community has debated the merit or mistake of bringing streamer Clavicular (a known abuser of women and alleged rapist) on a public trip to Israel.

Today, on the eve of Tisha B’av, I’m consideri...

A marquee advertising Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” recently declared: “Before there were the Jews, there was… The Odyssey.” The slogan has sparked backlash, and for good reason. It isn’t historically accurate.

While “The Odyssey” was composed centuries later, its story is traditionally set around 1200 BCE, in the aftermath of the Trojan War. By that time, the Isra...

Dear Jew in the City,

Why do Orthodox Jews have to wait until certain times to pray?

Sincerely,

Mark

Dear Mark,

Thanks for your question – and I know exactly why you’re asking: because of the bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent. As many have noted, this would make it difficult – if not impossible – for Orthodox Jews to pray...