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Black Bat Mitzvah

Black Bat Mitzvah

At the time of my bat mitzvah, my party felt like a collision of all the different parts of my identity.
Rethinking ‘Go Down Moses’ at the Passover Seder

Rethinking ‘Go Down Moses’ at the Passover Seder

[Op-Ed] Renditions of ‘Go Down Moses‘ at Passover Seders often problematically compare cultural memory and mythos of the Jewish people to the historical and contemporary trauma of Black people, ignoring that Negro spirituals cloaked in biblical allusion were a tradition of necessity.