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...
by Webmaster | May 24, 2017 | Holidays, Identity
Next week, as Jews celebrate the festival of Shavuot the ancient Hebrew words of the Book of Ruth will be read out loud around the world. Among Sephardic Jews, there are many additional traditions that add to the wonder and joy of the holiday. There is the custom of...
by Shekhiynah Larks | May 17, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Identity
When I set out to study in a traditional religious academy in Jerusalem last year, I was expecting a spiritual change, not a fashion makeover. I got both. Much of my professional life I worked in Los Angeles’s entertainment industry where fashion was essential to my...
