“To Jews, did my color either cancel my Jewishness or my Jewishness cancel my color, never coexisting?”
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A conversation between a teen and her mother on Judaism, identity, and the future.
At the time of my bat mitzvah, my party felt like a collision of all the different parts of my identity.
There are countless words that have slipped through the cracks of translation, found the underground tunnels of a language, like water to its palm, always running through the ridges but never getting stuck.
“The stranger thing was, it felt like I’d been staring down my whole life.”
It would have been a very different experience had I not known the history behind each place, person, and event.
“Oftentimes we feel stranded. Alone. Helpless. Lost.”
A poem about the man who runs the world.
The Be’chol Lashon Tzedek Teen Fellowship is for ethnically and racially diverse Jewish teens ages 12-18 who want ...