Jewish Media Is Failing Sephardic & Mizrahi Communities. Fixing It Starts Here.
Writers say representation won’t be enough to fix outlets’ coverage of non-Ashkenazi Jewish life.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
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Got Enemies? Try a Jewish Incantation Bowl
Scholar Shira Eliassian talks incantation bowls, demon divorces, and feminist historical narratives.
Between My Derech & The World: Wrestling with Antisemitism & Apostasy
Facing antisemitism as an ex-Orthodox, Queer-Mizrahi Jew in America
Precious Sound
Finding healing with ADHD, stimming, and Sephardic kabbalistic musician Victoria Hanna.
26 Jewish Resources That Aren’t Chabad.org
It’s time for a wider, more inclusive set of go-to Jewish resources.
Reinventing Jewish Fashion: What’s Old Is New Again
Sewing together fashion from other places and times to express a history of many roots.
Meet the Young, Progressive Voter Constituency Budding in Los Angeles’ Persian Jewish Community
“I used to feel so ostracized, so stigmatized and isolated because of my leftist beliefs…but I don’t feel like a pariah anymore. The network of support I’ve found with other young Persian Jews is small, but it’s really made an immediate difference in our lives. It feels like there’s been a shift in the ground I’m standing on.”
Hashish: A (Jewish) History
A cornerstone of Jewish identity is a fierce love of argument and discussion- coupled with intoxication, of course. At least that’s what I saw that one time at Chabad.
My Jewish Awakening
“Awakening” suggested a kind of milestone, a coming-of-age, almost a second bat mitzvah. Here was my unofficial rite of passage into the real Jewish world: not an aliyah, but anti-Semitism.
Self-Portrait
As a California native whose Jewish family is effectively barred from returning to Iran safely, Neman grew up embracing and celebrating the new place that his parents chose to call home.
“Yadet Miad?”: Recollections of Jewish Life in Iran
This series of graphite illustrations on paper combines images and text from a wide range of sources to pose and address the question: “what does it feel like to remember a place you have never been?”
The Spaces in My Togetherness
This essay originally appeared in ZAMAN, an arts & media collective dedicated to the remembrance, preservation, and re-evaluation of Mizrahi cultural consciousness. Last year, my friends and I invited one of our visiting lecturers, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, to a Tu B’Shvat seder in the Charedi-turned-hippie neighborhood of Nachlaot. The event’s Facebook page asked guests to bring…
Shalem / שלם
This poem originally appeared in ZAMAN, an arts & media collective dedicated to the remembrance, preservation, and re-evaluation of Mizrahi cultural consciousness. Three calendars hang in our kitchen: One begins in spring, one in fall One in winter. The start and halt Of a well-used car. A sundial Someone keeps moving. Summer begins In my Papa…