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Black Don’t Crack: On Learning to Love your Whole Child
By Jackie Jonas My husband and I have been married for 36 years. When we realized we were headed toward marriage, we had a lot to negotiate. He is an Ashkenazi Jewish man only two generations from Russia on his mother’s side and Austria on...
Gratitude: a Sukkot Perspective
By Sarah Robinson As fall approaches and the high holiday season engulfs our family, we start to prepare for our favorite festival. Sukkot, a celebration of nature, the harvest, and welcome, follows Yom Kippur, and falls squarely as the leaves begin to change and the...
Spiritually Jewish And Culturally Black: Sharing My Story
By Jackie Jonas Years ago I met a woman named Marva who had converted to Judaism in her twenties. Marva told me that the Orthodox Rabbi who supervised her conversion as a Black woman asked “What, you don’t have enough trouble?” That was the response...