{"id":23739,"date":"2012-06-13T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T20:31:55","slug":"multiracial-jews-moving-beyond-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23739","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jewish Week<\/a>
\n2012-06-12<\/p>\n

Julie Wiener<\/strong>, Associate Editor<\/p>\n

Now 12 percent of the community, racially diverse Jewish households making their way into mainstream \u2014 but still less \u2018engaged\u2019 than others.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Rabbi\/Cantor Angela Buchdahl<\/a> was growing up \u2014 the daughter of a white Jewish father and a Korean-American mother \u2014 she and her sister \u201calways felt like the \u2018only ones\u2019\u201d that were non-white in Jewish settings.<\/p>\n

Today, her three children attend the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, and each is in a class with at least one other mixed-race Asian. \u201cAnd there are other races as well,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile at Manhattan\u2019s Central Synagogue, where Buchdahl is a member of the clergy, there are at least 20 families with Jews of color, not counting Sephardic or Mizrachi Jews…<\/p>\n

…Rabbi\/Cantor Buchdahl\u2019s observations are reflected in the comprehensive UJA-Federation of New York population study released this week. The first Jewish population study to ask about race, it finds that approximately 12 percent \u2014 or 87,000 \u2014 of New York Jewish households are \u201cmultiracial or nonwhite.\u201d
\n<\/strong>
\nThis category includes households in which survey respondents were both Jewish and black, Hispanic, Asian or biracial, or in which white Jewish respondents reported that their household is bi- or multiracial. \u201cAs a group they are divided almost equally among four groups: Hispanic respondents, Black respondents, white respondents with biracial households, and biracial respondents, with small numbers of others (for example, Asian-American respondents),\u201d the study reports.<\/p>\n

In short, the category encompasses a wide range of profiles \u2014 among them interracial couples and their children, adult children of interracial couples, white couples with non-white adopted children and non-whites who were either born Jewish or converted to Judaism. And it is not clear how many families fit each profile…<\/p>\n

…But there is no typical multiracial Jewish family: the category represents a mix of races and ethnicities, as well as a wide range of family and national backgrounds everywhere on the spectrum of Jewish observance.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo call everyone \u2018Jews of color\u2019 is really a disservice because there\u2019s so much variation,\u201d said Diane Tobin, director of Be\u2019chol Lashon<\/a>, a San Francisco<\/a>-based group that conducts research and offers various programs throughout the United States, including an overnight summer camp for multiracial Jewish children<\/a>. \u201cBetween intermarriage, conversion and adoption, there\u2019s so many different paths and ways people are identifying as being Jews.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation The Jewish Week 2012-06-12 Julie Wiener, Associate Editor Now 12 percent of the community, racially diverse Jewish households making their way into mainstream \u2014 but still less \u2018engaged\u2019 than others. When Rabbi\/Cantor Angela Buchdahl was growing up \u2014 the daughter of a white Jewish father and a Korean-American mother \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[11061,13330,13331,11060,10401],"class_list":["post-23739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-angela-buchdahl","tag-angela-w-buchdahl","tag-angela-warnick-buchdahl","tag-julie-wiener","tag-the-jewish-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739","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=23739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43470,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23739\/revisions\/43470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}