by Tani Prell | Mar 17, 2025 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
For people who may have never heard of it or celebrated, what is Nowruz? Nowruz (pronounced no + ruz) means a new day. It’s the Persian New Year! Nowruz is a festival that is celebrated on the first day of spring, on March 21, when the day and night are equal in...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Featured Story, Identity
In 2020, I started a focus group to better understand the needs of Sephardic and Mizrahi college students. In these conversations, students voiced their desire to have an official presence on campuses since they felt abandoned, unheard, and unseen. The students I...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens
jGirls+ editor, Aimée Brown-Borges, reflects on jGirls+ and the partnership with Be’chol Lashon that helped strengthen her identity as Jewish person of Color. Be’chol Lashon collaborates with the Jewish teen feminist literary magazine jGirls+ in running...
by Tani Prell | Mar 2, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity, Jewish Ritual, Recipes
Many of us have faced difficulties during the past year. Community is more important now than it has ever been. For my part, I discovered that I was interacting with Ethiopian Jews, Israelis, other Jews of color, and the larger Jewish community of color (JOC). Because...
by Tani Prell | Feb 13, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Photo Credit: Kerry Constantino On New York’s Lower East Side, the Fridman Gallery, known for championing a diverse roster of international contemporary artists, is currently showing YAYA, the debut solo exhibition in the United States by Ethiopian Israeli...
