by Webmaster | Jun 28, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Identity, Jewish Ritual
“Yiddish takes in people from the margins who wanted a little something else, or wanted something more, or wanted to add to their Jewish experience.” -Cameron Bernstein Cameron Bernstein was one of six students in her first Yiddish class her senior year of college....
by Webmaster | Jun 22, 2022 | Identity, Jewish Ritual
On June 18th, 2022 Be’ chol Lashon celebrated the group B’ Mitzvah of the first JOC B’ Mitzvah Cohort. The ceremony, officiated by Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll, served as the culmination of the cohort’s months of collective Torah study, exploration of what it...
by Webmaster | Jun 22, 2022 | Holidays, Identity
On Friday June 17th, 2022, Be’chol Lashon marked Juneteenth and welcomed Shabbat. In conjunction with Marlene Meyerson Jewish Community Center Manhattan, Keshet, and the JCRC of New York, we came together on a rooftop in Manhattan. Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll led the...
by Webmaster | Jun 21, 2022 | Holidays, Identity, Jewish Ritual
“What are we going to do for Juneteenth this year?” was the question on the table. In 2021, I’d participated in a panel discussion that developed out of one of the initiatives through the United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) and the Rabbinical Assembly to...
by Webmaster | Jun 15, 2022 | Identity
Praxis is the act of turning ideas into practice and living out our ideas. For me, Black Jewishness is praxis. Black Jewishness is more a way of life and responsibility than just piety or being religious. The praxis is applying the customs, rituals, and weekly Torah...
