Tag: Tablet

  • The rewards of subordinating racial or ethnic identity, in the new memoiristic essay by the author of ‘Losing My Cool’

  • A New Movie About Bob Kaufman, a Jewish African-American Street Poet Shrouded in Myth Tablet 2016-06-24 Jake Marmer And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead does little to dispel the mystery surrounding the artist, which is why it works. Bob Kaufman Alley, in San Francisco’s neighborhood of North Beach, is tiny—narrow and hardly a…

  • Synagogues Need to Welcome and Celebrate Jewish Diversity Tablet 2016-03-31 MaNishtana MaNishtana is the psuedonym of Shais Rishon, an Orthodox African-American Jewish blogger, editor-at-large at JN Magazine, and author of Thoughts From A Unicorn and Fine, thanks. How are YOU, Jewish? Follow him on Twitter @MaNishtana. Thoughts on the importance of the updated list of…

  • 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…