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, 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...
by Tani Prell | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Story, Holidays, Identity
Photo credit: Bob Fletcher (American, b. 1938) MFDP Celebration, Atlantic City, NJ, 1964 (printed 2024) Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 inches Courtesy of the Rubenstein Library, Duke University It is June 21, 1964, and three young men in a station wagon are...
by Tani Prell | Jan 17, 2025 | Identity
Photo credit: Agamesh Mengistu, mother of Avera Mengistu, with her son Ilan, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas) This piece was originally published by The Jewish News of Northern California. As the world breathes a collective sigh of...
