Celebrating Jewish Diversity A Community Event! Join us on Saturday, May 12 at 6:30pm as we celebrate this year’s diversity programming, What Color Are Jews. We will have kid-friendly activities, music from Jewish communities around the world with Mark Levy and food from different Jewish cuisines. This event is Free, but you MUST Pre-register! We…
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Passover in 22 Days!
Purim is just a memory and we are now headed into Passover! The BIG, the BOLD, the most celebrated holiday in the Jewish calendar. Do you have a place to for seder?? This should be in the front of your mind now. Friends or family, a community seder, you should be making those plans. What…
Read More »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 »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 »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…
Read More »More on Jewish Diversity Tonight!
Diane Tobin is the Director of Be’chol Lashon and is our next speaker the What Color Are Jews series Imagine the Jewish Future Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world’s people. In focusing our…
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