From Ethiopia to Israel, From Screen to Comics

by Tani Prell | Apr 29, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Featured Story, Identity

Yossi Vassa is an expert in storytelling.  With a career spanning theater, television, film, and literature, he’s earned prestigious awards and performed across the world, including Broadway. In 2018, he won an International Emmy Award for his sitcom Nevsu, which he...

Works of the World

by Tani Prell | Apr 16, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Teens

 

ABC + Matzo Ball (A Cross-Cultural Comfort Soup)

by Tani Prell | Apr 8, 2025 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes

This matzo ball soup takes on the flavors of another delicious comfort soup that is common in Singaporean/Malaysian Chinese households – ABC soup. A variation of this soup always had a spot among the dinner dishes on my grandmother’s table. I didn’t know the name of...

Bring Global Jewish Diversity to your Seders with Tlaim’s Passover Zine

by Tani Prell | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Story, Holidays, Identity, Recipes

Be’chol Lashon spoke with Alana Chandler, the founder of Tlaim: A Patchwork Cookbook, an innovation hub of Be’chol Lashon. Available later this year, the cookbook will feature over 80 recipes and stories from Jewish contributors of various racial, ethnic, and cultural...

A Rabbi’s Reflections on the Persian New Year

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...