by Webmaster | Dec 14, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Holidays, Identity
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, Francesca Aoki Biller found the combination of her Russian-Jewish and Japanese-Buddhist heritage challenging and inspiring. Both her grandmother’s and her struggles with identity and faith fueled her creativity. After...
by Webmaster | Dec 6, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
This holiday season, I invite you to try a latke recipe with a bit more spice! In preparation for Hanukkah, I created a recipe that mixed my Latina and Jewish roots and my taste-testers and I couldn’t be happier with the result! Pancakes have always been big in my...
by Webmaster | Nov 27, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
For Jonathan Arogeti this Hanukkah is about a return to tradition—personal and collective. As a child, he never missed a Hanukkah Bazaar at Congregation Or VeShalom, Atlanta’s historic Sephardic Congregation. The Bazar was and still is a highlight not only of the...
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2017 | Holidays, Identity
Pamela Ehrenberg’s multicultural children’s book Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas is hitting the shelves just in time for the holiday season. Be’chol Lashon caught up with the author to learn more about the newest book and her hopes promoting #WeNeedDiverseBooks for...
by Webmaster | Nov 7, 2017 | Identity
The last week of September found me arguing before a jury and exhorting them to acquit my client of multiple charges. They didn’t. I lost. The ramifications of this loss were huge: multiple natural life sentences consecutive to decades in prison. I had grown very...
by Webmaster | Oct 25, 2017 | Identity
In November 1984 my mother left Ethiopia with me on her back, walking for 14 days and 15 nights through Sudan to travel to Israel. This summer, after four years in the United States as The Jewish Agency’s senior shlicha (emissary) for The Jewish Federation of Greater...
