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J. reporter Lea Loeb (right) with her husband George and their two kids. (Courtesy)
Posted inFirst Person

For my mixed Jewish-Salvadoran family, Thanksgiving is complicated

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb November 21, 2025November 21, 2025

I’ve been feeling a tug of unease as Thanksgiving approaches. On paper, it’s supposed to be simple: a day to cook too much, eat too much, be grateful. But in […]

Angelique Cabral as Becca Winograd-Diaz (left) and Rosa Salazar as Alma Winograd-Diaz in 'Undone.' (Photo/Courtesy Prime Video)
Posted inTV & Film

‘Undone’ imagines reversing intergenerational trauma in a Mexican-Jewish-American family

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz October 24, 2022October 25, 2022
“The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land,” by Graciela Mochkofsky, traces the saga of a group of Peruvian Jews.
Posted inBooks

An unlikely mass conversion in Peru gets a closer look in new book about ‘Inca Jews’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 11, 2022August 12, 2022
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Posted inFirst Person

What Día de los Muertos means to me as a Mexican Jew

by Francesca Reznik and JTA October 29, 2021October 28, 2021
Ariela Ronay-Jinich
Posted inBay Area, Education, Jewish Life, News

Jewish and Latino? This Bay Area educator has a new group for you.

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 22, 2021September 28, 2021
(Clockwise from top left) Analucía Lopezrevoredo, Ginna Green, Angel Alvarez-Mapp and Janu Mandel at the Aug. 12 Zoom unveiling of the “Beyond the Count” study.
Posted inNews

‘We are not alone!’ How a new study validates the feelings of many Jews of color.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 13, 2021July 7, 2024
Three teens stand together — one Latina, one Asian, one black — the Asian one is wearing a t-shirt that reads "This is what Jewish looks like."
Posted inU.S.

80% of Jews of color have faced discrimination in Jewish settings, according to massive new survey

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA August 12, 2021August 12, 2021
Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregants among the missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Photo/JTA-Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braced for bad news on a somber Shabbat

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 28, 2021
This aerial view shows search and rescue personnel working after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Chandan Khanna-AFP via Getty)
Posted inU.S.

The deadly building collapse in Surfside, Florida, struck a growing Jewish community

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA June 25, 2021June 28, 2021
Three teens stand together — one Latina, one Asian, one black — the Asian one is wearing a t-shirt that reads "This is what Jewish looks like."
Posted inU.S.

Without using the term, Pew survey unveils new data on ‘Jews of color’

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA May 12, 2021

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