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.
Reaching from the stars to the very earthly matters of Judaism, gender, race, and dismantling the patriarchy, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Carolivia Herron.
I often wonder what my ancestors would think of me. This comic is one in a series exploring my imagined relationship with my great grandmothers (as well as my relationship… Read more »
