This book is as much ethnographic study as it is an affirmative and therapeutic examination of identity, and what it means to pass that identity forward.
As I have woven being Chinese on top of Judaism, I want to explore what it would mean to weave Judaism on top of Chinese culture and tradition
And although none of these compare even remotely to the loss of life and living, they inflict a particular kind of pain because they are set against the backdrop of such monumental tragedy. One of those small sorrows is the loss of lipstick—and by this I mean red lipstick because for me, that’s the only kind there is.
Between the Jewish high holiday celebrations and family reunions in Brooklyn, New York, it was easier to say I was Jamaican and Jewish than it was for me to actually believe it.
Your name is who you are and that no one else can have your name until you die–this precept seems profoundly linked to what it means to be Jewish.
As Pride Month comes to an end, we asked six Jews who are also in the LGBTQIA+ community to speak about the interactions between their many identities.
