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....
by Webmaster | Feb 10, 2019 | Identity
Ahead of my first trip to Israel, I was nervous. Partly because I don’t like to fly and partly because “flying while Black” means that the airport can be an uncomfortable space for someone who is perceived as a potential threat. I was also nervous to go through...
by Webmaster | Jan 9, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
“The belief is that poetry is about rhythm and sound, it is a kind of a heartbeat, has a human physiological element to it that transcends meaning and in that way can be a unifying force. You don’t have to understand a language to hear a poem read to feel it and...
