“What Do I Do With All This Heritage?” Maryam Chishti Has the Answer

by Tani Prell | May 14, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity

May celebrates Asian American and Pacific Isliander Month, and Jewish American Heritage month. Maryam Chishti, co-executive director of The LUNAR Collective, exemplifies the pride and celebration of this double heritage month. She brings to her work a joyful pride in...

We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel

by Tani Prell | May 1, 2025 | Arts & Culture, Identity

  Grounded in history and brought to life with personal narratives, “We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel” offers insight into the experiences of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. “We Are Black Jews” ensures that this...

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...