Allison Josephs: Last News

Sasha Urban editorThrough her organization Jew in the City (JITC), Allison Josephs has been advocating for accurate representations of the Jewish community in the media since 2007. She’s now opening an official Hollywood bureau to elevate JITC’s efforts, something Josephs said she would have done earlier, but she had no idea such a thing even existed until last year.“We had been using social media, op-eds and relationships with reporters,” Josephs said, until she learned about other minority Hollywood bureaus created by the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), NAACP and the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE).

Jewish Media Awards at Lincoln Center Tuesday night – celebrating positive depictions of the Chosen People on the small screen.Semitic celebs like Patricia Heaton, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Michael Rapaport will present awards to TV’s most authentically Jewish streaming TV shows – including Netflix’s “Fauda” and “Jewish Matchmaking,” and FX’s “The Patient.”“Since October 7, Jews have been getting beaten down on social media and in mainstream media, constantly being told how awful we are,” said event organizer Allison Josephs, who modeled the splashy night after the NAACP Image Awards and GLAAD Media Awards.“The Jewish Media Awards will be a chance to bask in the richness of our heritage. It will be a night to celebrate the greatness of the Jewish people.”Josephs is the founder of Jew in the City, a nonprofit whose core mission is combating negative depictions of religious Jews in popular culture.Negative Jewish stereotypes, particularly in film, are an age-old problem that persists to this day, Josephs said.

technically Jewish but had his mezuzah, ritual door casing, on the wrong side of the entryway. I tried to let it go for months, grateful he had some Jewish identity. But when he confused Moses parting the Red Sea with the Dead Sea, I got the “ick,” and we were done.I am Jewish in everything I do.

Nobody Wants This is on course to be a breakout Netflix hit, but the series has attracted some shade for its portrayal of Jewish people.

The JITC Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation — “The first and only Jewish Hollywood bureau,” launched in 2021 and founded by Allison Josephs — has sent a letter to the Motion Picture Academy claiming that its inclusion policy “erases Jewish peoplehood and perpetuates myths of Jewish whiteness, power, and that racism against Jews is not a major issue or that it’s a thing of the past.”The letter has been signed by more than over 200 people, including David Schwimmer, Tiffany Haddish, Julianna Margulies, Michael Rapaport, Debra Messing, Ginnifer Goodwin and Marta Kauffman.In August, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences amended its “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for the 96th Oscars Awards Show, airing March 10 on ABC.Regarding lead actors or “significant supporting actors from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups,” the academy included, among others, African American/Black/African and/or Caribbean descent; East Asian; Hispanic or Latina/e/o/x; Indigenous Peoples; Middle Eastern/North African; and Southeast Asian.“Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity,” the letter states.“This must be addressed immediately by including Jews in the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards.”Other signees of the letter include Bret Gelman, Iliza Schlesinger, Elon Gold, Josh Dallas, Emanuelle Chriqui and Mark Feuerstein.“While many mistakenly believe that Judaism is only a religion, Jews are actually an ethnic group, with a varied spiritual practice that not all observe,” the letter says.