Category: Religion

  • No Man’s Nightingale: An Inspector Wexford Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) November 2013 288 pages Hardback ISBN: 9781476744483 Paperback ISBN: 9781476747132 Ruth Rendell A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she…

  • Christmas without Ramadan Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-09 Zena F. Itani I’ve never really liked Christmas. It was the most forced family event of the year, defined by spectacular displays of anxiety from my mother and bad temper served up by my father, always in time for guests. While that doesn’t sound much different from others’…

  • To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too J.: the Jewish news weekly of Northern California San Francisco, California 2015-01-08 Kim Carter Martinez Oakland, California My name is Kim. I am black, I am Jewish, and my life matters. For the last few months, our country has seen a movement growing from a…

  • When Being Black Is a Family Secret the sisterhood: where jewish women converse The Jewish Daily Forward 2015-01-02 Susan Reimer-Torn When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret. Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York…

  • Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…

  • The Birth of A Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America’s Civil War PublicAffairs 2014-11-04 368 pages 6.300 x 9.500 Hardcover ISBN: 9781586489878 eBook ISBN: 9781586489885 Dick Lehr, Professor of Journalism Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts In 1915, two men—one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker—incited a public confrontation…

  • Why I Passed For White The Archipelago: Stories about community, identity, and the ongoing quest to belong. Medium 2014-12-19 Shawna Ayoub Ainslie I erased my own heritage to feel safe. I hope to teach my children not to do the same. When I was 16, I started letting people believe that I was white. In…

  • Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in ‘Little White Lie’ The New York Daily News 2014-11-30 Justin Rocket Silverman, Senior Features Writer Documentary film chronicles how she grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and then learned her biological father was black Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black…

  • Jewish tent widens as diversity grows The Chicago Tribune 2014-12-16 Bonnie Miller Rubin, Reporter Ellen Zemel (left) lends a hand for a symbolic lighting of a menorah for Hanukkah during a party for parents and children of Project Esther: The Chicago Jewish Adoption Network of the Jewish Child & Family Services, at the Elain Kersten…

  • Pope Francis Prays for New Ways of Development in Latin America. America: The National Catholic Review 2014-12-12 Gerard O’Connell, Associate Editor/Vatican Correspondent The enchanting music and song of the Missa Criolla resounded through St Peter’s Basilica on the evening of December 12 as Francis, the first Latin American pope, celebrated mass on the feast of…