by Intern | Sep 14, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
Team Be’chol Lashon: We are excited to hear that you have a new album that has taken your work in a new direction. Tell us about it. Aroeste: Indeed! I’ve written a holiday album! While all my music has been considered “Jewish” by virtue of having been written and...
by Intern | Jul 19, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity
The gratitude I feel watching my older daughter’s thrill while singing a Ladino song with me cannot be measured. It is a tug at my heart I did not know was possible before I had children. While, at three-and-a-half years old, she might not understand the meaning of...
by Webmaster | Jun 28, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Recipes
The story of the Jews of Hollywood is well known, but what about the Jews of Bollywood? Bollywood produces over 1,000 films a year, more than double those made in Hollywood. And there is a deep Jewish Bollywood story to be told. My journey to understanding Jews and...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 17, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity
When I set out to study in a traditional religious academy in Jerusalem last year, I was expecting a spiritual change, not a fashion makeover. I got both. Much of my professional life I worked in Los Angeles’s entertainment industry where fashion was essential to my...
by Webmaster | May 3, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Since I was young, I have pondered the social connotations of my blackness and my Jewishness in a divided society and how to embrace the beauty of my identities. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area under the guidance of two socially aware and cognizant...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 6, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
As we prepare for our Passover seder this coming year, Stacey Menchel Kussell and Aaron Samuels bring us a collaborative and film project combining dance, music and poetry to unpack the daily rituals that we practice in our lives. The video, Ritual, follows four...
