by Webmaster | Apr 22, 2020 | Holidays, Identity
Kendall Pinckney is a rabbinical student at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and one of the stars of the viral Passover video “Saturday Night Seder.” We recently interviewed him on Facebook Live. Below are edited excerpts from the conversation. How...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Apr 21, 2020 | Identity
Most of the time we think of the Holocaust as limited to Europe, but it reached North Africa as well. Below Shay Lavi shares a tribute to his grandmother, who survived a concentration camp in Italian-occupied Libya and started a new life in Israel. Whenever we talk...
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 | 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...
