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Juliana Margulies, Greg Berlanti, Mayim Bialik Among 260 Signatories of Letter to Film Academy Critiquing Jewish Exclusion from Diversity Standards

“An inclusion effort that excludes Jews is both steeped in and misunderstands antisemitism,” reads the letter, organized by the Jew in the City Hollywood Bureau for Jewish Representation.

From left: David Schwimmer, Juliana Margulies, Michael Rapaport, Marta Kauffman and Debra Messing are among 225 Jewish entertainment figures who have signed a letter asking the Film Academy to include Jews as an underrepresented group in its inclusion standards. Amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, Jewish entertainment figures have come together to issue an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences criticizing their exclusion from being specified as an underrepresented group. The letter argues against the belief that Jews are well-represented in Hollywood, noting that depictions have been unbalanced, from 1927’s The Jazz Singer, about a Jewish musician trying to escape his heritage, to 2022’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which originally called Jenny Slate’s character “Big Nose” in the credits (it was changed in the digital release).

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