Category: Judaism

  • Escaping the oppression of a racist America, a black scientist named Oliver Golden took Soviet citizenship in the 1930’s and began a legacy for his family that endures in Russia today.

  • Third film festival La Voz News: The voice of De Anza College since 1967 Cupertino, California 2015-10-22 Bojana Cvijic, Staff Writer De Anza students saw the Lacey Schwartz’s film “Little White Lie” and had a discussion about race and identity issues during the Third Film Festival on Oct. 15 at Euphrat Museum. Members of the…

  • Meet April Baskin, the Multiracial Face of Reform Judaism Forward 2015-11-28 Allison Kaplan Sommer (Haaretz) Image: Haaretz See also: “Black and Jewish: New Reform Leader Works to Bring Marginalized Groups Into the Tribe” on 2015-11-25 from Haaretz. To meet April Baskin is to see the change in American Jewry personified. A tall, confident, 32-year-old with an impressive…

  • Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and “Little White Lie” Radio Curious Public Radio Exchange (PRX) 2015-05-11 Barry Vogel, Producer Ukiah, California The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black. The…

  • Raising my biracial Jewish child Ethical Jam The Times of Israel Jerusalem, Israel 2015-11-12 Ethical Jam presents contemporary ethical dilemmas and the responses of Jewish thinkers from across the world Jewish community. Ethical Jam is a project of the Center for Global Judaism (CGJ) at Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and of the Times…

  • What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of…

  • Mixed, Passing For White Youth Radio 2015-10-12 Maya Cueva What’s it like to be a mixed race person who passes as white? Complicated, according to Youth Radio’s Maya Cueva. She often finds herself struggling to represent the part of her racial identity that people can’t see. My whole life, I’ve always been the girl who’s…

  • All four books under review here are concerned with telling dramatic tales about singular, real lives. But they are also books about race. They are driven by the larger goal of making the individual story stand for more than itself.

  • “Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets” with Lacey Schwartz Taube Center for Jewish Studies Stanford University Center For Educational Research (Room 101) 520 Galvez Mall Stanford, California 2015-10-28, 19:00 PDT (Local Time) “Between Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life” series with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and…

  • This is not another essay about how hard it is to be light skinned in a dark man’s world. Why? Because the suggestion that this is a dark man’s world is ridiculous. Unless you’ve had your head up your butt, we quite clearly do not live in a version of the universe where overall it…