Student’sonlinechannel will ‘fill gap in market’
WHILE MOST final year students are concentrating on their dissertations, one undergraduate is managing to balance a heavy workload with a budding career as a TV producer.
Oliver Anisfeld has launched a Jewish online channel to address what he claimed was a “gap for good quality Jewish online media”.
The new channel will feature four weekly segments on current affairs, Jewish wisdom, movers and shakers, and Jewish food. The University College London history student launched J-TV on YouTube last week.
Filmed in a studio in east London, each segment is only 10 minutes long. This week’s shows included interviews with One Direction producer Ben Winston and historian Andrew Roberts.
Mr Anisfeld, 21, said Jewish culture alonewasnotenoughtokeepJewsof his generation interested in the religion.
One of J-TV’s aims would be to “show Jews how Judaism has universal relevance”, he said.
Henry Jackson Society director Alan Mendoza will host current affairs segments and in the debut video, Emeritus Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks gave his support to the project.
Mr Anisfeld said: “I think a lot of people see this as a way of giving back to the Jewish community. It is a platform for Jewish people.”
Filming is currently done in bulk sessions over a couple of days each month, but the former pupil of Haberdashers’ Aske’s School in Hertfordshire hopes to devote more time to the channel once he has graduated and has started to look for sponsors.