Multicultural

What could be funnier than a black man marrying a white woman?Before you say “Loving v. Virginia,” hold on, there’s ...

 Since I released my latest music video, “Boee Kala,” many friends, fellow musicians, and community members have asked me questions ...

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past…”When William Faulkner wrote these words in Requiem for a Nun, I’m pretty certain he ...

When I was in Israel this fall, I ended up going to a Sephardic synagogue one Shabbat morning, and served ...

Beatrice W. Hudson, known to me as Be Be, was my great-grandmother. She was one of the strongest, and most ...

Some people want to find the nearest fresh fruit and veggie stand. Other people seek out good, fast take-out Chinese. ...

 “Is she converting?”“Clearly, she is not from around here, I wonder if she is even Jewish.”“She must be someone’s nanny…”These ...

Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both ...

Celebrating Sukkot on the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, as I did as a child, was fraught with complications. Evening ...

From black-eyed pea hummus spiked with homemade horseradish harissa to matzoh-meal fried chicken cooked in shmaltz, to peach noodle kugels ...