Category: Religion

  • Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…

  • This Passover Choose Judaism My Jewish Learning Be’chol Lashon 2015-03-10 Alex Barnett My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She’s still Black). Our 3 year…

  • Color Erases, Color Paints Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life 2015-03-10 Isaiah Rothstein Each day this week, the Scroll will be featuring a post from a writer at JN Magazine—short for “Jewnited Nations”—a website “here to change the monochromatic monolithic perception of Judaism.” Each post has been commissioned and edited by MaNishtana, the pseudonym…

  • The Lazy Storytelling of ‘Black or White’: Love and Justice Are Not Colorblind Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) 2015-02-11 D. L. Mayfield I was at a writing retreat once where a bunch of us gathered together to talk about how to write well about social justice issues in our world. A young singer-songwriter with a…

  • Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…

  • Grappling With Today’s Realities From a Black-Jewish Perspective Jewish Exponent: What it Means to be Jewish in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-01-15 David A. Love The author with his wife, Sarah Katz, and son, Micah. As an African-American who is a member of the Jewish community by choice — and is also raising a Jewish child…

  • “Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!”: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identities of Children of Asian American and Jewish American Spouses Journal of Jewish Identities Issue 8, Number 1, January 2015 pages 129-148 Helen Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rachel Williams…

  • A Jewish-Asian Couple’s Union Leads to a Scholarly Interest in Intermarriage The New York Times 2012-06-15 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York One weekend night 15 years ago, a group of graduate students at the University of Chicago decided to interrupt their research long enough for a dinner party.…

  • The Newest Jews? Understanding Jewish American and Asian American Marriages Contemporary Jewry July 2012, Volume 32, Issue 2 pages 135-166 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-012-9078-y Helen K. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington This paper investigates how racial, ethnic and religious identities…