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  Be’chol Lashon Newsletter: May 2009
 The Alma Tikkun: Shavuot at the JCC ManhattanThursday, May 28 - 29, 10:00 PM - 5:00 AM In partnership with Be'chol Lashon, JCC Manhattan, Alma New York, Dor Chadash, and Hazon
BAY AREA EVENTS
 Lecture and Book Discussion on "The Rabbi's Cat"Sunday, May 31, 2:00 - 4:00 PM San Jose Public Library
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco Be'chol Lashon is delighted to sponsor the Interactive Kids Zone, bringing innovative activities representing African, Asian, and Latino Jewish culture to an estimated 20,000 people attending Israel in the Gardens. Celebrate Jewish Culture, Israel’s 61st anniversary and the Tel Aviv centennial with Israeli music, film, food. Click here for more information. *After Party, 21+, featuring DJ Assaf Amdursky, DJ Sabbo, Beatboxer Tommy Shepherd (aka Soulati from Felonious) at Mezzanine, 5-10pm. Click here for tickets.  NEW Camp Be'chol Lashon - IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER!Week-long sleepaway camp WELCOME TO ALL...children of racially and ethnically diverse families...and those who want to be part of a global Jewish community. Join us for arts, dance, music, ropes course, teambuilding, sports, swimming, leadership development, eco-Judaism and more! Click here for more information and to register your child. 
First African-American female rabbi to take N.C. pulpitBy Sue Fishkoff, JTA, May 17, 2009 Alysa Stanton never chooses the easy path. A convert and single mother of an adopted daughter, 14-year-old Shana, she has been hired by Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., a 53-member Conservative synagogue that also is affiliated with the Reform movement. So along with the usual settling-in challenges, she’ll be dealing with the politics of a merged congregation. Read on... 
L.A. Jewish, Latino communities to celebrateBy JTA Staff, May 11, 2009 The Jewish and Latino communities will join in a “Fiesta Shalom” at the spot where the Israeli flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles. Thousands of people from the two communities, joined by Boyle Heights’ African Americans and Asians, are expected at the May 17 event. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other dignitaries are scheduled to address the crowd. Read on...  Obama is the new face of the mixed-race
By Carrie Steinweg, April 7, 2009, NWI.com Kids such as Obama are labeled by different terms -- multicultural, biracial, mixed race and interracial. But just as the terms change, times change, too, and for today's biracial kids and the parents who love them, it seems as if there is finally a recognizable face to match the term. Read on...  The Coming of the Intermarried Rabbi
By Jeremy Gillick, April 23, 2009, New Voices David Curiel didn’t intend to cause any controversy when he decided to become a rabbi in the summer of 2008. At 35, he was happy to have finally picked a career. Read on... 
36 Under 36 2009: Juan Mejía, Beejhy Barhany, Y-LOVE
The Jewish Week, April 29, 2009 At 15, Juan Mejía was attending a prestigious Catholic high school in Colombia, hoping one day to become a monk. Little did he know that 16 years later, he would actually become a rabbi. Read on... Editor's Note: We congratulate Rabbi Juan Mejía for the fantastic work that he did translating a traditional Sephardic siddur for Shabbat eve and night into Spanish, Kol Tuv Sefarad. Felicitamos al rabino Juan Mejía sobre el trabajo fantástico que hizo traducir al español un siddur tradicional Sefardí para víspera y noche de Shabbat, Kol Tuv Sefarad.  Thoroughly Modern Marranos?
By Miriam Shaviv, May 6, 2009, The Forward  Why I Started the Half-Jewish Network
By Robin Margolis for InterfaithFamily.com I started the Half-Jewish Network on Sept. 22, 2005, because the adult children and other descendants of intermarriage need the same resources that are available for interfaith couples: advocacy organizations, literature and Jewish outreach. Read on... Madagascar: An Almost Jewish Homeland
By Adam Rovner, May/June, 2009, Moment Early Zionists debated a host of proposals to settle Jews in remote regions of the world, and one of them was Madagascar. I’m an American-born, naturalized Israeli citizen and sometimes I think it might have been better had Herzl dreamed of a Jewish state in a place less embattled than the Middle East. That’s why I am so curious about this would-be promised land that, at least until a recent military coup, was a relatively pacific republic in the Indian Ocean. Read on...  Shake a Family Tree And a Jew Falls Out
By Adam Rovner, May 13, 2009, The Forward Portuguese Jews fleeing the Inquisition arrived in Suriname in the mid-1600s via Holland and Brazil, giving this former Dutch colony claim to being one of the oldest Jewish communities in the New World. Read on...
Lost & Found: The Afridi Pathans of Malihabad
From The Sunday Indian, India 
MUSICBalkan Beat Box: Remix Album From JamBase.com Balkan Beat Box shakes up their mix of Gypsy, Jewish, Arabic, and Mediterranean rhythms with a remix album for the dance-floor. Nu Made was released nationwide by JDub Records on CD and vinyl on April 7, 2009. Read on...  EXHIBITWhen Jewish Scholars Fled to the South By Lucette Lagnado, April 24, 2009, The Wall Street Journal The Jewish scholars who had fled the Nazis and the young black students facing the hardships of the segregated South forged bonds that in many cases lasted long after the students had graduated and the professors had left the South for other posts. Read on...  FILMEthiopian boy's new life in Israel gets epic treatment By Michael Fox, April 16, 2009, J Weekly “Live and Become,” Radu Mihaileanu’s gripping saga of an Ethiopian boy who gets a fresh start in Israel, spans two decades and three countries. Yet this is an unusually intimate epic, with the boy’s emotional state always taking precedence over the social and political context. Read on... We welcome your participation in the Be’chol Lashon Newsletter! Please send us information about events in your community or articles of interest that relate to Jewish diversity. E-mail newsletter submissions to Esther Fishman, Esther@BecholLashon.org. Submissions are subject to editing for content, clarity and style. Special thanks to all the contributors who make the newsletter interesting and informative. |
