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...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Jul 19, 2020 | Identity
In the photo capturing my brush with the greatness of John Lewis, it looks like we’re sharing quite a moment. Proof that looks can be deceiving. If anything, the Civil Rights Movement icon and longtime conscience of the United States Congress was indulging one of my...
by Webmaster | Jul 17, 2020 | Identity
[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider_vc alias=”article-header-banner”] Isha Clarke thought the environmental movement was just for white hippies. Then in 2017, as a high school freshman, the Black and Jewish teen attended a protest against the proposed...
