by Webmaster | Feb 3, 2022 | Identity
Jennifer Esteen is a nurse, mother, community activist and in the running to become California’s first Black-Jewish Gay Assemblymember. I sat down with Esteen to discuss how her many identities shape her activism and what she hopes her legacy will be. Below are...
by Webmaster | Feb 3, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
Our family is Jewish and Chinese: one of us was born in New York City to Chinese immigrant parents, and the other to a European American couple in Michigan. From the moment we met and became a couple, our family culture and traditions have been fully Jewish, fully...
by Webmaster | Jan 13, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
One of Navajo Emily McDonnell’s favorite holidays is Tu B’shvat, The New Year of Trees, this holiday provided her with a frame for thinking about her move from the Southwest to the American South and her own growth. It is Spring 5781 (2021). It is the New Year for...
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 Webmaster | Dec 14, 2021 | Identity
It was a no-brainer to hold my son’s bar mitzvah in Tokyo. Seiji Hillel, my bicultural son, was born and raised in Tokyo and was firm in his Japanese identity. His Jewish identity was on wobblier ground. As his Jewish mother, I wanted my religion to have value...
by Webmaster | Dec 7, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
From the moment they met, it was a musical match. RebbeSoul is an American Jew of Hungarian descent. Shlomit Levi is an Israeli of Yemenite origins. Even though they come from very different musical backgrounds, the moment Levi stepped into RebbeSoul’s sound studio...
