I started to wonder: Was I Jewish enough? Too Asian to belong? Did people see me as not truly either? I felt caught between two worlds.
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“To Jews, did my color either cancel my Jewishness or my Jewishness cancel my color, never coexisting?”
A conversation between a teen and her mother on Judaism, identity, and the future.
As a proud Filipina and Ashkenazi Yiddish learner, Cameron Bernstein weaves Yiddish into each part of her life.
Tani Prell wrote this reflection on the theme of bravery.
Jenni Rudolphs most recent release, Water & Oil, speaks to her identity as a mixed race Jew.
The simpler answer may actually be what it doesn’t. My racial identity and my Jewish identity are inextricably tied to the day that marked the striking down of laws against intermarriage.
I am pleased to see that the new Pew 2020 study has found that the US Jewish population, along with the country’s population as a whole, is growing more racially and ethnically diverse.
Being Black in America is its own journey within the journey of just being human, and living, and discovering who you really are on a soul level. Then there’s being Black and Jewish.