by Webmaster | Sep 11, 2020 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
For most of my life, I’ve been surrounded by Jewish people. I was born in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, in Central Africa, and moved to France at age 10. My best friend growing up in France, who remains my best friend to this day, is Jewish. Later, I was in a...
by Webmaster | Sep 3, 2020 | Identity
I first came to Camp Be’chol Lashon when I was ten years old. My family of four crammed into our 1998 Nissan Maxima to take the winding drive up to Walker Creek ranch from San Francisco. That first year at camp was an admittedly rocky one—I got strep throat and I...
by Webmaster | Aug 27, 2020 | Identity, Recipes
Food brings people and stories together. As a chef, I often incorporate the stories of my heritage in my cooking. I grew up speaking Ladino in the Greek and Turkish Sephardic Jewish community in Seattle, WA. I learned to cook primarily from watching my mom. She taught...
by Webmaster | Aug 18, 2020 | Identity
Rabbi Alberto Amateau, a Sephardic Jew born in the former Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century, was a brilliant man and a tireless advocate for the Sephardic community in the United States. He studied law at the prestigious University of Istanbul before immigrating...
by Webmaster | Jul 31, 2020 | Identity
Erik Uriarte is used to the quizzical looks he receives while walking down the street in Billings, Montana. The mixed race son of an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and Roman Catholic father from Central America, Uriarte has been mistaken for a Muslim because he wears a...
by Webmaster | Jul 21, 2020 | Identity
Dr. Ephraim Isaac was the first Ethiopian-born student to attend Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1963 with a bachelor of divinity, and the first to receive a PhD from Harvard. Last month Isaac, who is now 83, received a 2020 Peter J. Gomes...
