by Tani Prell | May 15, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity
Ariel Cheng Kohane emerges into the comic world with a distinct voice, blending her Asian and Jewish pride into her creative endeavors. Inspired by a variety of cultures, Ariel’s work is a celebration of duality, identity, and the freedom that art provides. Born...
by Tani Prell | May 14, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Isliander Month, and Jewish American Heritage month. Maryam Chishti, co-executive director of The LUNAR Collective, exemplifies the pride and celebration of this double heritage month. She brings to her work a joyful pride in...
by Tani Prell | May 1, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Grounded in history and brought to life with personal narratives, “We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel” offers insight into the experiences of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. “We Are Black Jews” ensures that this...
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 | 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...
