It can be a challenge to have everyone from your neighbor’s toddler to your great uncle coming to your seder. Will people be bored? Will they get hungry? Will the kids wander from the table eliciting mumbling from other guests? Join me to discuss ways to keep everyone happy, when to compromise and when to…
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Jewish Identity Development for Multiracial Jews
Please do join us for this powerful and important conversation about what it is like to grow up as a Jew of color. What do children of color, biracial and multiracial children experience while being raised as Jews? How can we adults, whether parents, aunts, teachers or rabbis, help these children to feel empowered and…
Read More »8 questions about Purim
Here’s a list of eight commonly asked questions on Purim. Plus a fun fact! Take a look. Purim commonly asked questions
Read More »When You are the ‘Other’ and other Purim events
Have you ever felt like you didn’t fit in? You were the ‘other’? There are many reasons for feeling, I’m out of place, or as a dear friend of mine says, I feel like an onion in a petunia patch. Here are some: I’m Catholic in a Jewish family; I’m Chinese and Jewish; I’m gay;…
Read More »Next Holiday Up: Purim!
Purim will begin Wednesday evening, March 7. That’s the night that synagogues typically hold their Purim Schpiel – the retelling of the Purim story. Sometimes the story is chanted from a simple scroll and many times there is a comical play telling the story. It is popular to pick a theme – like Purim according…
Read More »Facts from Diane Tobin’s lecture on Global Jewry
If you missed the Jewish Diversity program and weren’t following the tweets on BecomingJewish, here is a quick rundown of the tweets. *Diane Tobin heads Be’chol Lashon: A Global Jewish People. *Young Jews are into social media and live in diverse circles. *Most countries don’t count religions. There’s a lot of controversy about who’s a…
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