“My wife and I knew that raising biracial Jewish kids meant there would be situations when people would question their Jewish authenticity. We thought about scenarios that could come up. We brainstormed how to response and how to teach the kids to respond. We told them, “You owe nobody an explanation. No one has the…
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All in the Family: Jews talk about their Multiracial Families
Parents, siblings, aunts and cousins may be white but when their family includes racially diverse members they too are impacted by racial assumptions in the Jewish community. What do white family members have to share with us about how we can be more tuned in to their family? Join us for a dynamic and exciting…
Read More »Multiracial Jews, “You don’t need to ask how I happen to be Jewish”
Sunday’s program was quite powerful. Young adults talked about being Black, Asian or biracial AND Jewish. They described the painful and incessant questioning that white Jews typically feel the need to do: Are you Jewish? How did you get to be Jewish? Did you convert? Did one of your parents convert? Which one? Recently I…
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