by Amy Albertson | Aug 28, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Identity
The US, to Israel, and back to the US again. Dana Schneider’s experience as a mixed Yemenite, Ashkenazi, Israeli, Jewish woman exposed her to the multiculturalism of both the Jewish people, and Israeli society, essentially from birth. Dana was born in New York to a...
by Amy Albertson | Aug 15, 2024 | Identity
Growing up Black, Jewish, and queer, tethered to the very being of me. I carried the belief of being utterly alone in my experiences into every space I entered. I constantly felt that who I was was simply “too much” for anybody to understand, let alone care enough to...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | 'Stories About...' in Homepage, Identity, Teens
I am Syrian, Hawaiian, Colombian, Korean, Israeli, Persian, Mexican, Native American, white, Cambodian, and Indian…or at least that’s what I’ve been told. I come from an Israeli American mother with a head of big, black curls and glowing olive skin, which I’ve...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | Identity, Teens
Listen to an excerpt of Naomi and Rona’s conversation: Have you ever felt empowered by Judaism? Have you felt that you weren’t heard because of Judaism? Naomi: I feel very empowered by my Judaism, rooted in my knowledge of the Jewish people’s history. I went to Jewish...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | Identity, Jewish Ritual, Teens
At the time of my bat mitzvah, my party felt like a collision of all the different parts of my identity. It did not feel like a celebration or a coming of age. I was too young to take a step back and appreciate the beauty of the supernova. I was intoxicated by the...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | Identity, Teens
There are countless words that have slipped through the cracks of translation, found the underground tunnels of a language, like water to its palm, always running through the ridges but never getting stuck. Words that don’t exist or simply don’t make sense in English...
