We had such a wonderful series of panel discussions in the East Bay about our multiracial Jewish community. I asked Sherith Israel to host the next gathering and several of our panelists grew up at Sherith Israel! Come on over and hear from all of them. The Jewish community if the San Francisco bay area…
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Interfaith or Interracial or Inter-ethnic: Jewish Families All
John Citron opened his presentation with, “My wife, Felicia, and I have been on a number of Dawn’s panels – interfaith and interracial and now both.” He went on to describe how they have raised their kids as Jews with an understanding of their Chinese heritage. Debbie, wife and mother in a Jewish Filipino home…
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…
Read More »What do Jews Look Like?
What do Jews Look Like? Black Jews, Asian Jews, Latino Jews, we tend to see them as exotic, from somewhere far away. But there are Black Jews, Asian Jews and Latino Jews sitting right next to you – in synagogue, in a restaurant, at the theater, on a park bench. Rabbi Mates-Muchin, a Chinese Jew,…
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