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 | 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...
by Tani Prell | Nov 14, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Holidays, Identity
Access Be’chol Lashon’s Four-Part Sigd Video Series Our four-part video series was made possible by the YES Fund from the Women of Reform Judaism. At Be’chol Lashon we celebrate and prioritize diversity as a Jewish value by uplifting the historic...
by Tani Prell | Sep 11, 2023 | Featured Story, Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
As an eight-year-old child, Rabbi Scialom Bahbout and his family experienced their own Exodus as they escaped the oppression of the Libyan government and made their way to Italy where he would grow up to become a rabbi serving the Jewish people in his adopted homeland...
by Webmaster | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured Story, Identity
‘Shave it off! They don’t like that here!’ my mom yelled from the kitchen. The ‘that’ she was referring to was my unibrow. The ‘they’ she was talking about were Americans. And she was right. I mean, it’s not like there’s a rule or law or anything. There’s not a sign...
