Category: Judaism

  • The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism Indiana University Press 2007-05-22 320 pages 22 b&w photos 6.125 x 9.25 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-253-21927-5; Cloth ISBN: 978-0-253-34902-6 Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of color from the Iberian…

  • Can Drake Save the Bar Mitzvah? The Jewish Week Blog: Well Versed 2012-04-12 Eric Herschthal When Drake’s new video, “HYFR,” dropped [was released] over the weekend—in which the Jewish, biracial hip-hop superstar raps at a bar mitzvah—I was thrilled. Initially. For years, pop culture references to the Jewish rite of passage have been stuck in…

  • Ben-Ur awarded study grant by Hadassah-Brandeis Institute In the Loop: News for Staff and Faculty University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2012-12-13 Associate professor Aviva Ben-Ur of the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Senior Grant in History from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute for her book project “Eurafrican Identity in a Jewish Society:…

  • The experience of race in the lives of Jewish birth mothers of children from black/white interracial and inter-religious relationships: a Canadian perspective Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2013-01-14 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.752099 Channa C. Verbian, BSW, M.Ed., RSW, OASW, OCSWSSW Toronto, Canada In this paper, I discuss my life history study on experiences of race in…

  • On Raising Asian-Jewish Children The Jewish Daily Forward the sisterhood: where jewish women converse 2011-05-30 Renee Ghert-Zand The recent Forward article “Raising Children on Kugel and Kimchi, and as Jews” centered on a new study that found that many families in which one parent is Jewish and the other is Asian are raising their children…

  • A decade in the making, Emily Raboteau’s “Searching for Zion” takes readers around the world on an unexpected adventure of faith. Both one woman’s quest for a place to call “home” and an investigation into a people’s search for the Promised Land, this landmark work of creative nonfiction is a trenchant inquiry into contemporary and…

  • How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community? RepairLabs: Resources and strategies for volunteer engagement and Jewish Service-Learning 2012-02-10 Diane Tobin, President Institute for Jewish & Community Research As the parent of a Black Jewish child, I want my son to feel at home in the Jewish community. It seems to me that…

  • Welcome! Please Check Your Identity at the Door RJ.org: News & Views of Reform Jews 2012-06-27 Lacey Schwartz, National Outreach/New York Regional Director Be’chol Lashon I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who was planning on enrolling her daughter in a local Hebrew school, a decision she is now reconsidering. Why?…

  • This book explodes the myth of a single authentic Judaism and shines a bright light on the thousands of ethnically and racially diverse Jews in the United States who live full and rich Jewish lives. It is impossible to read “In Every Tongue” without coming away with a deeper respect for and a broader understanding…

  • Eric Garcetti invokes Latino-Jewish ancestry in mayor’s race The Los Angeles Times 2013-01-02 Michael Finnegan Working a recent breakfast gathering of business owners in Northridge, Los Angeles mayoral contender Eric Garcetti introduced himself in Hindi when a Sikh businessman approached. A few hours later, Garcetti donned a colorful Peruvian headpiece with ear flaps as he…