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 | Oct 15, 2024 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
Photo credit: Isaac Wamani Rabbi Shoshana Nambi is the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, CA. A native of Eastern Uganda, she grew up in Uganda’s Abayudaya Jewish community. Rabbi Nambi is the author of The Very Best Sukkah, about the...
by Amy Albertson | Aug 28, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Identity
The US, to Israel, and back to the US again. Dana Schneider’s experience as a mixed Yemenite, Ashkenazi, Israeli, Jewish woman exposed her to the multiculturalism of both the Jewish people, and Israeli society, essentially from birth. Dana was born in New York to a...
by Amy Albertson | Aug 15, 2024 | Identity
Growing up Black, Jewish, and queer, tethered to the very being of me. I carried the belief of being utterly alone in my experiences into every space I entered. I constantly felt that who I was was simply “too much” for anybody to understand, let alone care enough to...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | Identity, Teens
I am Syrian, Hawaiian, Colombian, Korean, Israeli, Persian, Mexican, Native American, white, Cambodian, and Indian…or at least that’s what I’ve been told. I come from an Israeli American mother with a head of big, black curls and glowing olive skin, which I’ve...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | Identity, Teens
Listen to an excerpt of Naomi and Rona’s conversation: Have you ever felt empowered by Judaism? Have you felt that you weren’t heard because of Judaism? Naomi: I feel very empowered by my Judaism, rooted in my knowledge of the Jewish people’s history. I went to Jewish...
