by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 9, 2019 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
There’s something about Passover that makes it my indisputable favorite Jewish holiday. With the perfect combination of rituals, storytelling and culinary traditions, along with some neurotic spring cleaning incentives, this beautiful festival carries with it meaning...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 4, 2019 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
This year at Passover, Rosita Goldstein will be thinking about her two oldest children, who—away at college and participating in work-study—are unable to get home for the first time to celebrate with their family. But, sitting at home in the tropical heat and winds of...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Mar 26, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Sadly, this week’s post is a reminder that the gun violence that disproportionately impacts minority communities in the United States also impacts Jews. I remember crying on my 21st birthday. I’d made it. Twenty-one is not simply the age in which the doors of...
by Webmaster | Mar 21, 2019 | Identity
Growing up Jewish in modern-day Iraq, author and teacher Ceen Gabbai celebrated not only Jewish holidays but also Nowruz, a spring festival. Gabbai now lives and works in Brooklyn, and Be’chol Lashon’s Lindsey Newman caught up with her to better understand how Jews...
by Webmaster | Mar 13, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Caretaker, mediator, and negotiator. These are all words that might well describe the roles that the biblical Queen Esther played in the Purim story. They are also the words that artist Yona Verwer uses to describe her role as the founder and director of the Jewish...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Feb 20, 2019 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider_vc alias=”article-header-banner”] [vc_column_text “post-meta-data”][+AUTHOR+][+PUBLICATION+][+DATE+] Since arriving in California twelve months ago, I’ve tried the dry flesh of Chinese Jujubes, zest from the green...
