Jewish&
Jewish& is a blog by Be’chol Lashon, which gives voice to the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity of Jewish identity and experience. The original multicultural people, Jews have lived around the world for millennia. Today, with globalism and inclusion so key in making choices about engaging in Jewish life,Jewish& provides a forum for personal reflection, discussion, and debate.
A Jewish Jewel in the World’s #1 City
Recently, über-quaint San Miguel de Allende— named a UNESCO World Heritage city in 2008– was picked as the #1 City ...
A Call for Diversity: The Tower of Babel
While driving down Route 95 on the East Coast, one has the ability to survey hundreds of billboards along the ...
Our Dreams of Home
When I think of home, I imagine the physical space I return to at night, the one with the white-washed ...
Gluten-Free Indian Treats Sweeten Torah Celebration
I was born and raised in a traditional Jewish family in India. My father Dr. Samuel Solomon was a professor ...
Eating Ashkenazi-Sephardi Style at Sukkot
Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both ...
Finding Jewish Camelot
Celebrating Sukkot on the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, as I did as a child, was fraught with complications. Evening ...
Confronting Murderers and Finding Forgiveness
I think about the nature and concept of forgiveness literally on a daily basis. As a lawyer, my practice consists ...
Prayer for Diversity
Change is difficult. It can only happen when we reflect on the present and imagine different possibilities for going forward. ...
Honoring Dad, Forgiving Myself for Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish month of Elul is a month of contemplation and introspection leading up to Rosh Hashanah. For Victoria Washington ...
Amazing and Improbable Transformations for the New Year
Change is an inevitable part of our lives. Most changes, however, happen to us from the outside: we age, we ...