Multicultural
Maimonides’ Home and My Grandmother’s Song
Ladino first cast its magic spell on me in childhood. It always struck me as a graceful, rolling language, one ...
Cross-Cultural Parenting: Materialism vs Relationship
My daughter is wise beyond her years. She teaches me. Recently a family with older children handed down to us ...
The Risks of Being an Interracial Family
It is true that every family is different, but for multiracial families that difference can bring with it specific challenges. ...
World Traveler Becomes World Musician
What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem ...
Learning from Little White Lies
Growing up biracial in white Jewish family means that you don’t often see others who have your experience/look like you. ...
How Did the Jews Become a Global People?
“How did the Jews become a global people?”“They got pushed around a bunch.”“They had to go to different places.”Indeed. Looking ...
Not My Mother’s Matzah Balls: My Moroccan Kitchen
I have often joked that I am the only woman in America who doesn’t cook anything that she grew up ...
Tikkun Olam on Juneteenth
Despite the fact that it’s a celebration, I have bittersweet feelings about Juneteenth.Its origins are traced to Union troops arriving ...
A Recipe for Judaism
What makes a fish taste Jewish?For some, the immediate answer will be pickling and a former home in freshwater. For ...