by Intern | Jul 13, 2017 | Identity
There are some wonderful Sephardi wedding and engagement customs that trace back to the Island of Rhodes, then Turkey (now Greece), where my family lived before coming to America. Traditions beginning with trays of homemade candies prepared especially for an...
by Webmaster | Jun 28, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Recipes
The story of the Jews of Hollywood is well known, but what about the Jews of Bollywood? Bollywood produces over 1,000 films a year, more than double those made in Hollywood. And there is a deep Jewish Bollywood story to be told. My journey to understanding Jews and...
by Intern | Jun 21, 2017 | Identity
I decided to do something a little different for a 13-year-old living in America. I decided to help a group of people I have never met, living somewhere I have never visited. In part, I was inspired by the Torah teaching about the parah adumah, also known as the red...
by Intern | Jun 14, 2017 | Holidays, Identity
Growing up, while others went to baseball games or played catch with their dads, I never really did. At an early age, my sisters and I went to live with our maternal grandparents, who later adopted us. Every time Father’s Day would come around, it was spent with my...
by Intern | Jun 12, 2017 | Holidays, Identity
I am supposed to be writing a reflection on Loving Day, but it’s a Wednesday morning, a school day and a work day, and our family is already shipwrecked, knee deep in water, and trying, desperately, to bail out the one remaining lifeboat. None of the four alarm apps...
by Intern | Jun 6, 2017 | Identity
Julian Voloj has devoted his life to creating a more inclusive Jewish community. A talented photographer, he recently joined the team at Be’chol Lashon, and we caught up with him to find out what makes this Colombian-German-American Jew tick. What was it like to grow...
