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...
by Webmaster | Feb 19, 2019 | Identity, Recipes
Eddna Samuel lives with joy and wonder and adventure. An Indian Jew by birth, she has lived in the United States and India and for the last few months in Israel. She does not like to plan, she just lets things unfold. Since coming to Israel she has lived in 8 places....
