by Webmaster | Apr 26, 2019 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Keeping a chametz-free diet during Passover can be challenging for health-minded folks, especially for Ashkenazi Jews like me who try to avoid eating meat and other animal products. While life became a little easier for some of us in 2015, after the Conservative...
by Webmaster | Mar 21, 2019 | Identity
Growing up Jewish in modern-day Iraq, author and teacher Ceen Gabbai celebrated not only Jewish holidays but also Nowruz, a spring festival. Gabbai now lives and works in Brooklyn, and Be’chol Lashon’s Lindsey Newman caught up with her to better understand how Jews...
by Webmaster | Mar 13, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Caretaker, mediator, and negotiator. These are all words that might well describe the roles that the biblical Queen Esther played in the Purim story. They are also the words that artist Yona Verwer uses to describe her role as the founder and director of the Jewish...
by Webmaster | Feb 19, 2019 | Identity, Recipes
Eddna Samuel lives with joy and wonder and adventure. An Indian Jew by birth, she has lived in the United States and India and for the last few months in Israel. She does not like to plan, she just lets things unfold. Since coming to Israel she has lived in 8 places....
by Webmaster | Feb 10, 2019 | Identity
Ahead of my first trip to Israel, I was nervous. Partly because I don’t like to fly and partly because “flying while Black” means that the airport can be an uncomfortable space for someone who is perceived as a potential threat. I was also nervous to go through...
