by Webmaster | Sep 15, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
Across the world, Jews are preparing for the High Holidays. We bring our whole selves as we welcome the new year on Rosh Hashanah and reflect on Yom Kippur, and the clergy help guide these experiences. Be’chol Lashon reached out to a few of our bloggers who are also...
by Webmaster | Sep 13, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
Shoshana Nambi is a rabbinic student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. A native of Eastern Uganda, she grew up in the small but powerful Abayudaya Jewish community. She recently authored a children’s book, The Very Best Sukkah,...
by Webmaster | Sep 12, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Lauren Monaco Grossman is an artist and cook who brings her talents to bear as expressions of her identity on her website Minty’s Table. Her challah postcards would make the perfect Rosh Hashanah hostess gift or share her greeting cards as you send wishes for a...
by Webmaster | Jun 22, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
On Friday June 17th, 2022, Be’chol Lashon marked Juneteenth and welcomed Shabbat. In conjunction with Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center Manhattan, Keshet, and the JCRC of New York, we came together on a rooftop in Manhattan. Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll led the...
by Webmaster | Jun 21, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
“What are we going to do for Juneteenth this year?” was the question on the table. In 2021, I’d participated in a panel discussion that developed out of one of the initiatives through the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) and the Rabbinical Assembly to...
by Webmaster | May 16, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
In 2003, the Israeli government designated the 28th of Iyar, Jerusalem Day (May 29, 2022), as the official day of remembrance for Ethiopian Jews who could not fulfill their dream of returning to Jerusalem. In the 1980s, many Ethiopian Jews tried to make this dream a...
