by Webmaster | Jan 13, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
I was taught that Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero in school. I was taught that Black people had achieved equality because of his work. As I got older, I began to see that sitting next to a white person or going to a restaurant without being arrested wasn’t...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Dec 2, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
Happy Hanukkah! The Be’chol Lashon team sat down with Brazilian-born Jewish Ladino opera singer, Carla Sutton Berg, to chat about her new Hanukkah song. Carla is an Educational Psychologist, artist, composer, and multicultural singer. Below is a translation of...
by Webmaster | Nov 23, 2021 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
I am Sephardi-Mizrahi. My family is half Turkish and half Persian and both traditions have AMAZING food, but my favorite Hanukkah recipe hands down come from my Turkish side. My family honors the Festival of Lights by frying Saludozas for the holiday. Saludozas (sg....
by Webmaster | Nov 23, 2021 | Holidays, Identity
This is Mizrachi heritage month. So we are celebrating the diversity of Mizrachi and MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Jews. Each community has its own ways of engaging with its diasporic heritage and identity. Be’chol Lashon in partnership with SAMI Sephardic...
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2021 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
When I ask my grandma how to recreate her recipes, I never get a straight answer. How much flour? Depends on the crowd. How much oil? Depends on the water. How much sugar? Depends on the day. Depends on the occasion. Depends on the humidity. Depends on the hour....
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2021 | Holidays, Identity
When I hear the word “fusion”, it conjures up images of the frozen food aisle at the supermarket, exhibiting a gallery of TV dinner meals. Some consider fusion cuisine inauthentic blasphemy or a cloying attempt at symbolizing post-racial harmony. But, verbiage aside,...
