by Shekhiynah Larks | Aug 19, 2014 | Identity
My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us a plastic toy kitchen set. My 15-month-old was delighted. As she happily played, I “Facetimed” my parents so they could join me in watching her fun. However...
by Webmaster | Aug 15, 2014 | Identity
It is true that every family is different, but for multiracial families that difference can bring with it specific challenges. Married to an African American, Russian born Alina Adams struggles with how her family looks to others and the implications. Less than a year...
by Webmaster | Aug 7, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem become a Jewish educator in San Francisco? The answers are music, spirituality and the relationship between the two. If someone had told me ten...
by Webmaster | Aug 3, 2014 | Identity
Growing up biracial in white Jewish family means that you don’t often see others who have your experience/look like you. It is always special to be in Jewish spaces that celebrate diversity and reflect my experience. It is nice to able to connect to others that...
by Shekhiynah Larks | Jul 23, 2014 | Identity
“How did the Jews become a global people?” “They got pushed around a bunch.” “They had to go to different places.” Indeed. Looking at the diversity of faces in the room the global nature of the Jewish community was not in dispute but the process of migration, the...
by Intern | Jul 17, 2014 | Identity, Recipes
I have often joked that I am the only woman in America who doesn’t cook anything that she grew up eating. Now this is not a reflection on my mother’s cooking abilities, but rather a result of my marriage to a Moroccan Israeli with very different ideas of what...
