{"id":49520,"date":"2016-10-19T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49520"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:54:34","slug":"black-jewish-and-avoiding-the-synagogue-on-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49520","title":{"rendered":"Black, Jewish And Avoiding The Synagogue On Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black, Jewish And Avoiding The Synagogue On Yom Kippur<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed<\/a>
\nNational Public Radio<\/a>
\n2016-10-12<\/p>\n

Leah Donnella<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today.<\/p>\n

That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.<\/p>\n

You got a great deal on plane tickets? Reminds me of the time I took a free Birthright trip to Israel<\/a>.<\/em> Going skating? I haven’t been on skates since my bat mitzvah<\/a> reception, held at the roller skating rink in Villanova, Pa.<\/a><\/em> You say you love the musicals of George Gershwin<\/a>? Ha, that sounds just like Gershenfeld, my mother’s maiden name, which is also my middle name, which means “barley field” in Yiddish<\/a>, the language my ancestors spoke in Eastern Europe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Some of this is just me being obnoxious. But it’s also a way to claim a part of my identity that’s hidden from most people. I’m a black woman. No one ever assumes I’m Jewish. When I talk about Judaism, people look at me in a way that makes me feel like I’m breaking into my own house. Especially the people inside the house.<\/p>\n

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

Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today.<\/p>\n

That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,395,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[14788,23061,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-49520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-code-switch","tag-leah-donnella","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49520","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=49520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51816,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49520\/revisions\/51816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}