Black History is Jewish History

Black History is Jewish History

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...
Freedom in Many Forms: The Inspiration Behind Be’chol Lashon’s Freedom Campaign and Judaism’s Liberation Holidays

Freedom in Many Forms: The Inspiration Behind Be’chol Lashon’s Freedom Campaign and Judaism’s Liberation Holidays

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...
The Unibrow

The Unibrow

‘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...