by Tani Prell | Oct 15, 2024 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
Photo credit: Isaac Wamani Rabbi Shoshana Nambi is the Assistant Rabbi at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, CA. A native of Eastern Uganda, she grew up in Uganda’s Abayudaya Jewish community. Rabbi Nambi is the author of The Very Best Sukkah, about the...
by Tani Prell | May 23, 2024 | 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...
