Jews of Color Archives

Largest Group of Respondents from Jews of Color Initiative Study Are Interfaith Families

By Tema Smith

If you’re anything like me, the news that the Jews of Color Initiative commissioned a landmark study exploring...

Advocacy, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Professional Development

TaRessa Stovall Talks About Being Mixed Race & How We Can All Create Change

By Tani Prell

I had the honor of participating in an event that 18Doors co-sponsored with Be’chol Lashon for Loving Day (watch...

Advocacy, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting

Feeling Unheard as a Jewish, Queer Asian Woman

By Carmel Tanaka

Being a Jewish queer Asian woman is more emotional labor than I have the spoons for right now. It’s Pittsburgh, Orlando and...

Anti Semitism, Identity, Jews of Color, LGBTQ, Multiracial, Race

What We’re Reading & Watching About Anti-Black Racism

By Tema Smith

Like many organizations in the Jewish community, the team at 18Doors has been spending a lot of time discussing...

Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Race

Why Can’t We Have a Christmas Tree?

By Alina Adams

“We can’t have one,” I replied, full of the weary knowledge that only the mother of a...

Hanukkah, Hanukkah & Christmas, Jewish Holidays, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting Challenges, Parenting Hanukkah, Parenting Stories

How I Came to Embrace My Important Role in Judaism

By Kristin Eriko Posner

On Saturday, March 10th, 2018, in front of my family and community, I became a bat mitzvah at 33. The service...

Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Conversion, Identity, Jews of Color, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Synagogue

Being Jewish (and Buddhist and Christian and Chinese)

By Amourence Lee

A good story is supposed to have a beginning, middle and end, right? Well, this story about being Jewish...

Identity, Jewish Buddhist Relationships, Jewish Chinese Relationships, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting, Parenting Stories

Developing a Vision of the Future of Asian-Jewish Families

By Hedi Molnar

Last month more than 500,000 junior high school students, teachers and parents received an issue of Junior...

Family, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial

Finding Their Voice: Jews of Color Are Slowly Putting Their Concerns on the Communal Agenda

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

648 This article first appeared in The [New York] Jewish Week and is reprinted with permission of author....

Identity, Jews of Color

Seeking the Light: Child of Holocaust Survivors Reclaims Judaism

By Hedi Molnar

I can’t tell you how many people asked if it was my first marriage when they saw my engagement ring…a...

Holocaust, Identity, Jews of Color, Multiracial, Parenting

Pizza, Noodles and Latkes

By Hedi Molnar

What am I? Small eyes… dark hair…. I look like my father. When I went to China to adopt each of...

Identity, Jews of Color, Multicultural Food, Multiracial, Race

Nation Divided: Coping With Racism in the Jewish Community

By Aliza Hausman

1119 “So where you from?” they ask. “New York,” I say. “No, really. Where...

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