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…
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Where We Are Heading?
Abi & Andy with their kids Lori Voices From Our Community Imagining What’s Next Activists, environmentalists, single mothers, Israelis, interfaith couples, Jews of color, spiritual seekers, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, adopted, transgendered – describe anyone you know? Join us Sunday, Feb. 26, from 1-5 p.m. at the Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto. I am…
Read More »What the heck is Sukkot?
There are three pilgrimage holidays in Jewish tradition. Pilgrimage holidays are the ones on which ancient Israelites traveled to Jerusalem to celebrate the holiday at the Temple. Sukkot is one of them. Exodus 23:14 describes the three festivals – Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. Sukkot is the third, the ingathering or harvest. Exodus 23:14 14. Three…
Read More »What Color Are Jews?
This fall Building Jewish Bridges will be offering a series of panel discussions and classes on Jews of color. Studies of the bay area find that 14% of our Jewish community are Jews of color. That means that AT LEAST every tenth Jew you see is a multiracial Jew or lives in a multiracial family….
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Successful Parenting Choices in Interfaith Families Navigating religious choices in an interfaith family can add a layer of complexity to parenting. Hear from a panel of non-Jewish parents who are happy with how things turned out with their now grown kids. Panelists will discuss a variety of topics, such as, holidays, lifecycle events, choosing religious…
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What is it like to live with the assumption that you can’t possibly be Jewish? As there are more and more Asian Jews is the Jewish community getting any better at recognizing its own diversity? A panel of local Asian Jews (born Jewish, adopted, or converted) will discuss the experience of living in the bay…
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