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Jewish Beauty Queens and Movie Stars: The Unknown Story of Bollywood

Jewish Beauty Queens and Movie Stars: The Unknown Story of Bollywood

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...
From American Fashion Icon To Mea She’arim Chic

From American Fashion Icon To Mea She’arim Chic

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...
Youth Poet-Laureate Embraces Creole and Jewish Heritage

Youth Poet-Laureate Embraces Creole and Jewish Heritage

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...
Preparing for Passover with Poetry and Dance

Preparing for Passover with Poetry and Dance

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...
“Who Knows One?” in Ladino: Songs at the Sephardic Passover Seder

“Who Knows One?” in Ladino: Songs at the Sephardic Passover Seder

by Webmaster | Apr 6, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity

For Rachel Shemarya (née Capelouto), a native of the Island of Rhodes, Passover provided an opportunity not only to share her delicious holiday recipes but also to transmit the Passover story and Sephardic songs in her native language, Ladino, to her family right here...
Searching a Family Tree for Raisins: A Passover Story

Searching a Family Tree for Raisins: A Passover Story

by Webmaster | Apr 5, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity

Are there raisins in your haroset? In years past, your answer may have been “Of course!” or “Eww! Who does that?” Attitudes have since changed, thanks to recipe swapping on the net and a growing appreciation for the diversity of world Jewry. But a box of Sun-Maid was...
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