by Webmaster | Jan 14, 2021 | Identity
It’s the end of an era: Be’chol Lashon’s founding director, Diane Tobin, is stepping down after 20 years, and Marcella White Campbell will be the new executive director. Marcella has served as the organization’s marketing director for the last six years, and has been...
by Webmaster | Jan 13, 2021 | Holidays, Identity
This year, we are reading the Torah portion Vaera on the Shabbat of Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend. The timing is poetic, as Vaera is about our moral obligation as Jews to never give up to free ourselves and others from oppression. Here is MyJewishLearning’s...
by Webmaster | Jan 7, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Last month, I recorded a 1-minute video on TikTok, the social media platform popular with Generation Z that I’ve been using since September. Wearing a durag and sitting on my bed in Oakland, I shared some thoughts about “Jewish conditional whiteness” from my...
by Webmaster | Dec 29, 2020 | Identity
The past year was challenging for so many, but especially for people of color, who were disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and who continue to bear the brunt of racism and police brutality. Yet even as 2020 brought tremendous challenges, ethnically and racially...
by Webmaster | Dec 16, 2020 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
Look at a tree, or imagine one. What do you have in common with your tree? You are both living organisms. Strong. Vulnerable. Dynamic. In Jewish teaching, our Torah is called the Tree of Life. Our sacred stories come alive as we reread them each year, bringing our...
by Webmaster | Dec 10, 2020 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
[mylist-video-player playlist_id=’PLqZmAeG8LW2VAo6dr4op5_kxQ7r3njag9′] Asked to record themselves lighting the menorah for the fifth night of Hanukkah for CLAL’s Hanukkah in JazzTime concert on Dec. 14, Shelli Aderman and Narda E. Alcorn and their...
