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...
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...
