by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Jewish Ritual
Cantor Annelise Ocanto-Romo is proud of her Latino and Sephardic heritage. Both of her parents grew up in Venezuela but did not fully embrace Judaism until after coming to the United States to study. As a child, Cantor Ocanto-Romo identified strongly as both a Jew and...
by Webmaster | Feb 3, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Judaism teaches us not to believe in idols. But, shhhh….don’t tell my Rabbi…I’ve had one for most of my adult life: Flory Jagoda. Hers might not be a name you know readily, but you’ve likely heard of her Hanukkah song, if you know any songs in Ladino, “Ocho...
by Webmaster | Jan 7, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Last month, I recorded a 1-minute video on TikTok, the social media platform popular with Generation Z that I’ve been using since September. Wearing a durag and sitting on my bed in Oakland, I shared some thoughts about “Jewish conditional whiteness” from my...
by Webmaster | Nov 12, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Tigist Yoseph Ron was seven and her younger sister, Hirut Yoseph, only five when they made the treacherous journey from their birthplace of Gondar, Ethiopia, to the border with Sudan. It was 1984, and Israel was preparing to evacuate thousands of Jews from war-torn...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 12, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Galeet Dardashti comes from a long line of renowned Persian singers. Her grandfather, Yona Dardashti, was a famous performer of Persian classical music in Iran. Her father, Farid Dardashti, sang on a weekly television show in Iran and later became a hazzan in the...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 4, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Elijah Gordon, aka Sølä, The Jewmaican, is a bright, up and coming musician and playwright who just released his first EP called “OnTrack.” On the EP, the 18-year-old explores his Jewish-Jamaican identity and culture through rap, spoken word, and singing. Team Be’chol...
