by Webmaster | Sep 19, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
“Music has always been central to how Ladino is shared and learned,” explains Carla Berg. Her grandfather Youssef Eliahou Diwan, who was a cantor, knew the Sephardic tunes and Ladino songs but did not sing them in public when he moved to Brazil and served a largely...
by Webmaster | Aug 17, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity
We are living at a time of immense stress and uncertainty. There is no easy way forward. But as Toni Morrison teaches, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We...
by Webmaster | Jul 14, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison Be’chol Lashon...
by Webmaster | Jun 28, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Jewish Ritual
“Yiddish takes in people from the margins who wanted a little something else, or wanted something more, or wanted to add to their Jewish experience.” -Cameron Bernstein Cameron Bernstein was one of six students in her first Yiddish class her senior year of college....
by Webmaster | May 3, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity
For the Union for Reform Judaism’s Leading the Change Summit, May 2022, Tani Prell wrote this reflection on the theme of bravery. Her poem, Breathe Bravely, explores the ways that her mixedness, Jewishness, and range of emotions are tied to what it means to her to be...
by Webmaster | Apr 26, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Jewish Ritual
Teaching children the skills to talk about their own identity and to hold space for the uniqueness of others is foundational to helping them develop the conscious empathy essential to identifying and combating bias. As an educator, one of the most accessible ways...
