by Webmaster | Nov 23, 2021 | Holidays, Identity
This is Mizrachi heritage month. So we are celebrating the diversity of Mizrachi and MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Jews. Each community has its own ways of engaging with its diasporic heritage and identity. Be’chol Lashon in partnership with SAMI Sephardic...
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2021 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
When I ask my grandma how to recreate her recipes, I never get a straight answer. How much flour? Depends on the crowd. How much oil? Depends on the water. How much sugar? Depends on the day. Depends on the occasion. Depends on the humidity. Depends on the hour....
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2021 | Holidays, Identity
When I hear the word “fusion”, it conjures up images of the frozen food aisle at the supermarket, exhibiting a gallery of TV dinner meals. Some consider fusion cuisine inauthentic blasphemy or a cloying attempt at symbolizing post-racial harmony. But, verbiage aside,...
by Webmaster | Nov 15, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
(click here to read part one and part two of this 3-part series) Sarah Aroeste is a pioneer and leader in Sephardic Jewish culture and education. This three-part series about her twenty-year career speaks to a broader transformation that she has helped create in...
by Webmaster | Nov 11, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Identity
(click here to read part one and part three of this 3-part series) Sarah Aroeste is a pioneer and leader in Sephardic Jewish culture and education. This three-part series about her twenty-year career speaks to a broader transformation that she has helped create in...
