by Tani Prell | Apr 29, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity
Yossi Vassa is an expert in storytelling. With a career spanning theater, television, film, and literature, he’s earned prestigious awards and performed across the world, including Broadway. In 2018, he won an International Emmy Award for his sitcom Nevsu, which he...
by Tani Prell | Apr 16, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens
jGirls+ editor, Aimée Brown-Borges, reflects on jGirls+ and the partnership with Be’chol Lashon that helped strengthen her identity as Jewish person of Color. Be’chol Lashon collaborates with the Jewish teen feminist literary magazine jGirls+ in running...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity, Jewish Ritual, Recipes
Many of us have faced difficulties during the past year. Community is more important now than it has ever been. For my part, I discovered that I was interacting with Ethiopian Jews, Israelis, other Jews of color, and the larger Jewish community of color (JOC). Because...
by Tani Prell | Feb 13, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Photo Credit: Kerry Constantino On New York’s Lower East Side, the Fridman Gallery, known for championing a diverse roster of international contemporary artists, is currently showing YAYA, the debut solo exhibition in the United States by Ethiopian Israeli...
by Tani Prell | Dec 23, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
On December 12, 2024, New York Mayor Eric Adams issued a citation recognizing Be’chol Lashon’s work to uplift the Ethiopian Jewish holiday of Sigd. “New Yorkers take immense pride in their communities of faith,” the citation from Mayor Adams reads. “I am delighted to...
