by Tani Prell | Dec 13, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
This year, Carla Berg is making this dark season a bit brighter by gifting us with a new English language take on her Ladino Hanukkah song. There could be no better time for a miracle, making the title of Carla’s songs especially fitting. The original song Nes,...
by Tani Prell | Dec 12, 2023 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Growing up with a Yemenite-Israeli father and an Ashkenazi-Canadian mother, Gila Green knew more about the diversity of Jewish life than many of her Canadian classmates. As an adult she moved to Israel and became a novelist, book editor, and an English as a Foreign...
by Tani Prell | Dec 7, 2023 | Identity
Amy Albertson Watching the current situation unfold in Israel has been extremely difficult on many levels. I don’t have words for what it was like to watch the brutal massacre of Israelis, and the almost instantaneous uptick in antisemitism globally. It has been...
by Tani Prell | Dec 7, 2023 | Identity
David Serrero I was rehearsing my Off-Broadway production “Anne Frank, a Musical,” on October 7th. My show opened three days after the massacres. Having most of my family living in Israel, I discovered that my aunt received a rocket at her house in Ashkelon; luckily,...
by Tani Prell | Dec 1, 2023 | Identity
Ceen Gabbai In the heart of New York, far from the deserts of Iraq where I was born, I find myself haunted by a fear I thought I had left behind. I am a Jewish parent and an Iraqi immigrant. Nowadays, my heart is heavy with a sorrow that spans continents and...
by Tani Prell | Nov 6, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Identity
James McBride’s The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store tells the story of Black and Jewish characters living side-by-side in the 1920s and 30s. Holding both Black and Jewish identities, staff and board members at Be’chol Lashon shared their reflections on this piece of...
