“I was so used to describing myself as a Russian. I equated being Russian with being Soviet. I discounted both my Jewish and Ukrainian identities. Why? Because I was brainwashed when I was a child. But in fact, I am not Russian. I am Jewish, Ukrainian and Australian.”
Sigd is a holiday celebrating Jewish unity and diversity.
This origin story of Adam & Eve has been used to punish, to instill regret, to sever us from one another. What if it’s also our salvation?
We need faith-based spaces where the participants are not seen as the ‘other.’ Spaces where we are not told ‘you don’t look Jewish’ or asked, ‘no, where are you really from?’
Wrestling with the legacy of signing melodies by Shlomo Carlebach— prolific and influential song leader, and also a known abuser.
My great-grandfather was detained at Angel Island. Immigrants carved tens of thousands of poems into every square inch of the barrack walls, describing their anguish of captivity and longing for home.
Here are some pickling and preserving basics to follow as you create your own jars of year-round goodness
Tisha B’av is a holiday about mourning. I often feel like I’m in a perpetual state of mourning.
In this fable, Carolivia Herron reckons with ancestral grief–and how conflict is carried on to new generations.
Connection destroyed at the expense of productivity, culture at the expense of assimilation.
