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Be’chol Lashon

Many people march down a street carrying a colorful banner that reads "Jews Support Black Lives Matter"
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish communities are finally paying attention to Jews of color. Here’s the long road to how they got there.

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA July 15, 2020
"I’m coming out of the closet. I am Black, I am Jewish, I am queer, and on top of all that, I’m a woman, too," writes Aviva Davis.
Posted inLocal Voice

How I learned to love myself as a Black Jew

Aviva Davis by Aviva Davis June 19, 2020
College student and former J. intern Tova Ricardo: "There are people who doubt my Jewishness. They’ll doubt my Jewish knowledge. They will assume I don’t know their stories." (Photo/Kara Fleishhacker)
Posted inUncategorized

For Jews of color, protests are reminders of pain — even within Jewish community

by Gabriel Greschler June 11, 2020January 25, 2021
Campers at Camp Be’chol Lashon, a summer camp for young Jews of color. (Courtesy Be'chol Lashon)
Posted inUncategorized

When you treat us as a mere statistic, you fail Jews of color like me

Marcella White Campbell by Marcella White Campbell May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
(JTA/Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

As a black Jew, I’m being forced to walk a tightrope after the Monsey attack

Shekhiynah Larks by Shekhiynah Larks January 8, 2020January 8, 2020
four women and one man toil in a field of dirt
Posted inHigh Holidays, Bay Area, U.S., History, Holidays, Yom Kippur, Jewish Life, News

Atonement: The Jewish case for black reparations

by Gabriel Greschler October 4, 2019October 4, 2019
Joanne Greene with a young member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda (Photo/Fred Greene)
Posted inBay Area

Meet the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda, in documentary and talk at Marin JCC

by Dan Pine August 8, 2019August 8, 2019
Drake wearing an oversized leather, shearling-lined coat on a balcony overlooking a busy city street
Posted inMusic

Drake, rap’s global superstar, is his own brand of Jewish

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 5, 2018October 5, 2018
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, member of the Ugandan parliament and first ordained rabbi of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, in Marin, August 2018 (Photo/Sue Fishkoff)
Posted inBay Area, World, News

In Marin, Uganda’s chief rabbi lays out big plans — including a run for president

by Sue Fishkoff August 31, 2018September 4, 2018
Julia Hernandez Nierenberg in Tsfat
Posted inIsrael at 70

Israel showed me I have a place in the global Jewish community

Julia Hernandez Nierenberg by Julia Hernandez Nierenberg April 12, 2018April 12, 2018

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