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 27, 2025 | Featured Story, Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Be’chol Lashon spoke with Alana Chandler, the founder of Tlaim: A Patchwork Cookbook, an innovation hub of Be’chol Lashon. Available later this year, the cookbook will feature over 80 recipes and stories from Jewish contributors of various racial, ethnic, and cultural...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Featured Story, Identity
In 2020, I started a focus group to better understand the needs of Sephardic and Mizrahi college students. In these conversations, students voiced their desire to have an official presence on campuses since they felt abandoned, unheard, and unseen. The students I...
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 10, 2025 | Featured Story, Holidays, Identity
Photo credit: Bob Fletcher (American, b. 1938) MFDP Celebration, Atlantic City, NJ, 1964 (printed 2024) Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 inches Courtesy of the Rubenstein Library, Duke University It is June 21, 1964, and three young men in a station wagon are...
by Tani Prell | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured Story, Identity, Recipes
Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Eddna incorporates the flavors of her childhood into her current New York City kitchen. Eddna learned to appreciate home cooked meals by watching her aunt and grandmother make every element of their dishes from scratch. “I would watch...
