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 Intern | May 10, 2017 | Identity
For Jewish kids of color, graduating from high school and stepping out into the world often means going from a place where their story is already known into spaces where their identity may be up for question. This week we talked with Aviva Davis, veteran blogger and...
