by Webmaster | Jan 8, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Jessica Stern is the co-founder of Ikku, a company that helps Colombian and Guatemalan people who have been victims of political violence heal and earn an income through artisanal crafting and tallit weaving. The Be’chol Lashon Team recently chatted with Stern about...
by Webmaster | Nov 14, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
By his count, the Sephardic opera singer and actor David Serero has performed more than 2,000 shows around the world over the past two decades. “It’s not about the number,” he said by phone during a recent trip to Paris, where he was born. “It’s more about remembering...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Mar 26, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Sadly, this week’s post is a reminder that the gun violence that disproportionately impacts minority communities in the United States also impacts Jews. I remember crying on my 21st birthday. I’d made it. Twenty-one is not simply the age in which the doors of...
by Webmaster | Mar 13, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Caretaker, mediator, and negotiator. These are all words that might well describe the roles that the biblical Queen Esther played in the Purim story. They are also the words that artist Yona Verwer uses to describe her role as the founder and director of the Jewish...
by Webmaster | Jan 9, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
“The belief is that poetry is about rhythm and sound, it is a kind of a heartbeat, has a human physiological element to it that transcends meaning and in that way can be a unifying force. You don’t have to understand a language to hear a poem read to feel it and...
by Webmaster | Dec 14, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Francesca Aoki Biller found the combination of her Russian-Jewish and Japanese-Buddhist heritage challenging and inspiring. Both her grandmother’s and her struggles with identity and faith fueled her creativity. After...
