by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 20, 2020 | Identity
Last month, I was scheduled to fly to Berlin to attend a book festival. After lots of discussion, the festival was cancelled a week before it was to take place due to fears about the spread of coronavirus. The dates happened to be just after my grandmother’s first...
by Webmaster | Apr 6, 2020 | 'Stories About...' in Homepage, Identity, Recipes
Like all Jews, Bukharian Jews celebrate Passover with a seder ceremony and meal. However, we have many Passover traditions and customs that are unique to our community. For example, at the seder we wear the jomah, a colorful Bukharian kaftan (robe) with gold...
by Webmaster | Apr 1, 2020 | Identity
This Passover, we are confronting a plague unknown to the ancient Egyptians: the COVID-19 epidemic. While many of us are sheltering in place and anxious about what lies ahead, we at Be’chol Lashon believe it is important to remember how much beauty there is in...
by Webmaster | Mar 18, 2020 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
The following are excerpts from an online conversation entitled “Jews in the Digital Shtetl” with Rabbi Juan Mejía, the Southwest regional director at Be’chol Lashon. The conversation was organized by Judaism Unbound and the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, CA. You can...
by Webmaster | Mar 11, 2020 | Identity
We’ve all heard of the many Ashekanzi Jews who have and continue to make an impact in American society—think Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld, and Yitzhak Pearlman, just to name a few. But did you know that American Greek and Turkish Jews have and...
by Webmaster | Mar 6, 2020 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
To the best of her knowledge, Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh is the first Persian-speaking woman, born to two Iranian parents, to become a rabbi—certainly the first in the Reform movement. She grew up in the Persian Jewish community in Los Angeles, often referred to as...
