{"id":22808,"date":"2012-10-19T18:11:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22808"},"modified":"2021-08-21T03:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T03:29:57","slug":"from-both-sides-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22808","title":{"rendered":"From both sides, stranded."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judaism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judaism<\/a>, one\u2019s mother must be Jewish in order to be \u2018officially recognized\u2019 as Jewish. Because it was my father who was Jewish, I didn\u2019t count. And although I was born in Japan, I was not granted citizenship because only my mother was Japanese. From both sides, stranded. When I was 18, I decided to convert to Judaism. My mother was supportive, but she insisted that if I were to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikveh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mikvah<\/a> I must also start taking Japanese lessons. I\u2019m not sure why she though these two things went together, or that they somehow balanced each other out. Balance was something both my parents strove for. Balance was important, they explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naomi Angel, \u201cOn the Train,\u201d in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=10509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out<\/a><\/em>, edited by Adebe De Rango-Adem and Andrea Thompson (Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2010): 143.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Judaism, one\u2019s mother must be Jewish in order to be \u2018officially recognized\u2019 as Jewish. Because it was my father who was Jewish, I didn\u2019t count. And although I was born in Japan, I was not granted citizenship because only my mother was Japanese. From both sides, stranded. When I was 18, I decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3601],"tags":[4848],"class_list":["post-22808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-judaism","tag-naomi-angel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58345,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22808\/revisions\/58345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}