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Seeing Double
Diversity is like a pizza pie. When I get my slice of pizza, I may feel as if no one ...
Shul Shopping for Diversity
Some people want to find the nearest fresh fruit and veggie stand. Other people seek out good, fast take-out Chinese. ...
Sarah and the Struggle of the Barren Identity
This week, I’d like to focus on the self, not as the observer, but as the observed. Not when we ...
African-Born Rabbi and Activist Dies
Be’chol Lashon mourns the passing of Rabbi Hailu Paris, a native of Ethiopia who lived most of his life in ...
Lot, the Subjective Stranger: A Call for Diversity
“Is she converting?”“Clearly, she is not from around here, I wonder if she is even Jewish.”“She must be someone’s nanny…”These ...
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 ...