by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2017 | Identity, Recipes
I am temporarily living in my Grandma Gertrude (pictured above)’s house. So my kitchen is actually, my grandma’s kitchen. She didn’t really like to cook. She did bake though: rich sticky brownies topped with marshmallows, enormous chocolate chip cookies with nuts and...
by Webmaster | Mar 23, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
The seders of my adult life are quite different than those I experienced in my youth. The main reason for this is that I am married to a Moroccan Israeli who has his own rich traditions from which to draw from. Early in our marriage, my husband experienced his first...
by Webmaster | Mar 3, 2017 | Identity
I am an oddity: I am both African-American and Jewish. This dual identity has shaped my life and worldview. Even though the African-American community and the Jewish community have had some historical collaborations, such as those during the civil rights movement,...
by Webmaster | Feb 23, 2017 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Purim is all about the hiding. Esther hid her identity from King Ahashverosh. Haman hid his evil side from the King. And as our tradition teaches, the name of God does not appear in the written account of Purim, because even God is hidden in the Purim story. When is...
by Webmaster | Feb 15, 2017 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
They were older than me, by at least five years, and I was afraid. Though my Satmar Hasidic neighbors were my friends, their cousins usually approached me with disdain whenever I’d go over for a playdate. On one occasion, they bullied me and lifted my shirt up. He...
by Webmaster | Feb 7, 2017 | Identity
Though they did not start off life as Jews, Puah Millsaps and her multiracial family have never felt more welcome than they do in the Jewish world. Be’chol Lashon caught up with this busy mom between homeschooling lessons to hear more about her family’s unusual...
