by Webmaster | Aug 26, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider_vc alias=”article-header-banner”] [vc_column_text “post-meta-data”][+AUTHOR+][+PUBLICATION+][+DATE+] Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one...
by Webmaster | Aug 7, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem become a Jewish educator in San Francisco? The answers are music, spirituality and the relationship between the two. If someone had told me ten...
by Intern | May 20, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise sometimes. I am a mother now. Up until 7 months ago when someone would ask me a defining attribute of myself, I would have said I’m a Ladino singer. That’s what...
by Intern | May 6, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
So Katy Perry thinks she’s Sacha Baron Cohen, in possession of that subtle talent that turns offense into parody. Problem is, she is missing one very crucial element to her “shtick.” She’s not funny. A video circulating on the interwebs features Ms. Perry dressed up...
by Webmaster | Apr 8, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
Passover is a time for storytelling. One of the main purposes of the holiday is to allow one generation to tell the next generation the story of how we came out of Egypt and journeyed from slavery to freedom. There are many children’s books that engage young minds by...
by Intern | Dec 17, 2013 | Arts & Culture, Identity
I became Bar Mitzvah on April 20th, 2002, the 130th anniversary of Hitler’s birth. My dad’s side of the family wore West African dashikis. The only other time my temple had held that many Black people was Bingo night. We did not have the money to rent a hotel or hire...
