by Intern | Nov 3, 2014 | Identity
photos credit Chester Higgins Be’chol Lashon mourns the passing of Rabbi Hailu Paris, a native of Ethiopia who lived most of his life in the United States but never lost his connection to his native land. Hailu Paris was born in 1933 in Addis Ababa. He spent...
by Intern | Oct 30, 2014 | Identity
“Is she converting?” “Clearly, she is not from around here, I wonder if she is even Jewish.” “She must be someone’s nanny…” These were not just the petty thoughts of those who saw me with my mother, but also at times the actual words spoken. Did these people aim to...
by Intern | Oct 21, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
When I think of home, I imagine the physical space I return to at night, the one with the white-washed façade, the apple trees in the backyard, and of course my daughter’s contagious toothy grin waiting for me inside. But I also feel home, that indescribable sense of...
by Intern | Oct 12, 2014 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
I was born and raised in a traditional Jewish family in India. My father Dr. Samuel Solomon was a professor in the College of Agriculture, Pune where I spent the first 16 years of my life. On Simchat Torah morning, the gardener used to bring a basket of jasmine buds...
by Intern | Oct 7, 2014 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both use the lulav and etrog and we both build a sukkah. I imagine that the sukkah building materials might have differed in Morocco than the materials my...
