by Webmaster | Mar 27, 2018 | Holidays, Identity
I remember learning two things—and only two things—about Sephardic culture in Sunday School as a young child. First, Sephardic Jews come from Spain. Second, Sephardic Jews eat rice and beans on Passover. I have spent much of my adult life explaining to...
by Webmaster | Mar 22, 2018 | Holidays, Identity
There was nothing typical about photographer Jaime Permuth’s Jewish childhood in Guatemala. Even so, Passover stood out among the holidays he experienced. In the first of two posts, Be’chol Lashon caught up with Jaime to learn more about Jewish life in Guatemala and...
by Webmaster | Mar 20, 2018 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Father-son rabbinic dynasties are nothing new, but Rabbis Sion and Braham David stand out as a family of firsts who have an especially strong dedication to Jewish tradition and a love of Passover. Both Rabbis David are Bene Israel Jews who trace their roots back more...
by Webmaster | Mar 14, 2018 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
Jews are a people of memory and action. On Passover, we tell and retell a collective narrative of liberation, preserved and developed through stories, teachings, and rituals. The Exodus story, though ancient, resonates through the generations as a story of deliverance...
by Webmaster | Feb 21, 2018 | Identity
In August of 2017, we interviewed Souksavat Soukhaseum, knowns as Souks, about his journey from Laos as a child to being a Jewish New Yorker to working at the Free Synagogue of Flushing. Reaction to that interview came from around the world and led to an unexpected...
by Webmaster | Feb 7, 2018 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
This year, Black History Month resonates particularly strongly for me as a Jew. For this February, Jews around the world are reading the Torah portions that focus on the Israelites, Moses and the journey out of Egypt and towards freedom. Black history and the...
