by Tani Prell | May 1, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Grounded in history and brought to life with personal narratives, “We Are All Black Jews” offers insight into the experiences of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. “We Are All Black Jews” ensures that this often ignored history has a place in our written...
by Tani Prell | Apr 29, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity
Yossi Vassa is an expert in storytelling. With a career spanning theater, television, film, and literature, he’s earned prestigious awards and performed across the world, including Broadway. In 2018, he won an International Emmy Award for his sitcom Nevsu, which he...
by Tani Prell | Apr 16, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens
jGirls+ editor, Aimée Brown-Borges, reflects on jGirls+ and the partnership with Be’chol Lashon that helped strengthen her identity as Jewish person of Color. Be’chol Lashon collaborates with the Jewish teen feminist literary magazine jGirls+ in running...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity, Jewish Ritual, Recipes
Many of us have faced difficulties during the past year. Community is more important now than it has ever been. For my part, I discovered that I was interacting with Ethiopian Jews, Israelis, other Jews of color, and the larger Jewish community of color (JOC). Because...
by Tani Prell | Feb 13, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Photo Credit: Kerry Constantino On New York’s Lower East Side, the Fridman Gallery, known for championing a diverse roster of international contemporary artists, is currently showing YAYA, the debut solo exhibition in the United States by Ethiopian Israeli...