by Webmaster | Sep 15, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
Across the world, Jews are preparing for the High Holidays. We bring our whole selves as we welcome the new year on Rosh Hashanah and reflect on Yom Kippur, and the clergy help guide these experiences. Be’chol Lashon reached out to a few of our bloggers who are also...
by Webmaster | Sep 13, 2022 | Identity
Longstanding contributor Eddna Samuel recently moved to New York. We caught up with her to better understand what took her from Mumbai to Tel Aviv and now to United Nations. Be’chol Lashon: A new year is about to start, and you are in a new place on a new adventure....
by Webmaster | Sep 13, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
Shoshana Nambi is a rabbinic student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City. A native of Eastern Uganda, she grew up in the small but powerful Abayudaya Jewish community. She recently authored a children’s book, The Very Best Sukkah,...
by Webmaster | Sep 12, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Lauren Monaco Grossman is an artist and cook who brings her talents to bear as expressions of her identity on her website Minty’s Table. Her challah postcards would make the perfect Rosh Hashanah hostess gift or share her greeting cards as you send wishes for a...
by Webmaster | Sep 12, 2022 | Identity, Recipes
“I usually tell people I’m French,” explains Alex Borukhov, whose fluent English has an accent that makes people wonder, “really, I’m from Tajikistan. But Americans don’t know where that is.” Borukhov’s native land is in Central Asia, surrounded by Afghanistan, China,...
by Webmaster | Aug 17, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity
We are living at a time of immense stress and uncertainty. There is no easy way forward. But as Toni Morrison teaches, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We...
