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Serayah as Rbel in the BET+ original series "Kingdom Business"
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The gospel of ‘Kingdom Business’ director Christopher Erskin

TaRessa Stovall by TaRessa Stovall and Forward June 13, 2022June 13, 2022
Lara Downes is a professional pianist and host of an evening program on Classical KDFC 90.3. (Photo/Matt Barrett)
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Classical ambassador: Pianist and radio host Lara Downes is on a mission to celebrate Black composers

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 29, 2022May 17, 2022
Ethiopian Israeli singer Rudi Bainesain will perform at Israel's S.F. consulate's Yom HaAtzmaut gala.
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S.F. Israeli Consulate spotlights Ethiopian Israeli success stories

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 11, 2022May 2, 2022
JOC leaders invited to a think tank convened by the Leichtag Foundation in September 2016, including Ilana Kaufman (top right)
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Despite 10 years of promises, Jewish leaders have failed to make space for Jews of color

Ilana Kaufman by Ilana Kaufman and Forward April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
Jared Armstrong (left) took part in a Birthright Israel trip in 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jared Armstrong)
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Israel’s never-ending, and very human, ‘Who Is a Jew?’ saga

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA February 24, 2022February 22, 2022
Mayor David Dinkins (center) looks on while a Jewish man and a Black man argue during riots in Crown Heights, Aug. 1991. (Photo/JTA-New York Daily News Archive-Getty Images)
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A podcaster explores her own Black and Jewish identities in a series about the Crown Heights riots

by Adam Dickter and JTA February 22, 2022February 22, 2022
Jared Armstrong (center) with other participants on a Birthright trip to Israel in 2021.
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Israel thinks I only want to make aliyah so I can play basketball. But I just want to come home.

Jared Armstrong by Jared Armstrong and JTA February 16, 2022
The kinara, the main symbol of Kwanzaa, was inspired by the Hanukkah menorah. (Photo/Forward-iStock)
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How Kwanzaa’s creator modified a menorah — and helped Black Jews

Robin Washington by Robin Washington and Forward December 27, 2021December 27, 2021
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The ‘Jewface’ debate about casting non-Jews as Jews betrays an Ashkenazi bias

MaNishtana by MaNishtana and JTA October 13, 2021
Noah Shufutinsky a.k.a. Westside Gravy performing at Jewish National Fund-USA’s Spectacular Sunday on Sept. 12, 2021. (Photo/Bindelglass Photography)
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Westside Gravy: SoCal-raised rapper looks to take his career to next level in Israel

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

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