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Allison Josephs

New York

Founder and Director at Jew in the City

Changing negative perceptions about religious Jews and making engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible. Founded JITC Hollywood Bureau

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  • 3 weeks ago | jewinthecity.com | Allison Josephs

    Last week we married off our daughter, our eldest, to a wonderful young man, in the hills of Jerusalem. The groom, like our daughter, chose to leave the place he was born and return to our ancestral homeland. He chose to bravely serve his land. Even though it is only days after the wedding, he continues to do so as I type these words.

  • 2 months ago | jewinthecity.com | Allison Josephs

    My mother was diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago. The disease was asymptomatic for years, but once it went into high gear, she had to begin treatment which tied her down to the hospital. When she made progress in fighting the cancer (she appears to be in remission, thank God!) and her new treatment protocol allowed her to travel, my parents decided that every Pesach would become a special family time to make happy memories around the world.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | jewinthecity.com | Allison Josephs

    My neighborhood has been covered in orange balloons since news broke last week that the orange-haired Bibas brothers, Ariel and Kfir, were brutally murdered by Hamas. Israeli forensic teams discovered that a month after the 9 month old and four year old were taken hostage (on October 7) the boys were strangled to death, their bodies desecrated with rocks postmortem, to make it look like they had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.

  • Feb 11, 2025 | jewinthecity.com | Allison Josephs

    I was thinking of a common phrase the Talmud uses to describe the Jewish people and our relationship to one another. “Kol Yisrael Areivim ze bah ze.” “All Jews are responsible for one another,” we are told. It is a sentiment that many Jews feel in quiet times, but it hits so much harder when our brethren are suffering in unimaginable ways, and we feel a deep duty to help. Because Hebrew is lashon Hakodesh, “the holy tongue,” when we dig into the root of a word, we often find a deeper truth to it.

  • Jan 15, 2025 | jewinthecity.com | Allison Josephs

    Today our daughter, our oldest child, got engaged in Jerusalem, the city where she was born 21 years ago to a wonderful young man who also chose to make the holy land his home. The wedding will be here too, be’H, *perhaps the first time anyone in our family has been married in Israel in 2000 years.*This has been a rough year (more) for the Jewish people. Our position in the world is increasingly precarious.

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