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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

Be'chol Lashon

Left: Marcella White Campbell, the new executive director of Be'chol Lashon; Right: A Shabbat service at Camp Be’chol Lashon in 2016 led by Ethiopian Israeli, Maor Sanbata and campers. (Both photos courtesy of Be’chol Lashon/ via JTA)
January 20, 2021, 1:01 pm
Meet Marcella Campbell, 1st Jew of color to head diversity group Be’chol Lashon
For decades the US organization worked to shatter Ashkenormative stereotypes and pioneered programming by and for non-white Jews. It’s now seeing its first Black executive director
By Gabe Friedman
Members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, including in the front row April Baskin, on the far right and Leo Ferguson, third from right, march as part of a Jews4BlackLives protest in New York in 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/ via JTA)
July 18, 2020, 2:11 am
US Jewish recognition of Jews of color took decades of sweat, blood and tears
With the BLM movement center stage, many Jewish organizations move to make communities more welcoming — but that’s no coincidence: such initiatives have been decades in the making
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: The Be'chol Lashon organization summer camp fosters community and Jewish education to kids from diverse backgrounds. (Courtesy Be'chol Lashon)
January 20, 2020, 4:23 pm
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, dreams of a better conversation about race
Be’chol Lashon, an organization that promotes ethnic diversity within Jewish community, publishes curriculum in honor of US civil rights leader to tackle difficult identity issues
By Melanie Lidman
Lacey Schwartz Delgado. (Courtesy)
October 6, 2019, 3:00 am
A biracial Jewish filmmaker refuses to shy from thorny questions of identity
Lacey Schwartz Delgado’s dual identities as an African-American and New York Jew inform her documentary, ‘Little White Lie,’ and her current work with youth via Be’chol Lashon
By Rich Tenorio
Lacey Schwartz Delgado with her husband Antonio and their two children Maxwell and Coltrane. (Courtesy of Antonio Delgado for Congress)
November 6, 2018, 5:00 am
NY House candidate Antonio Delgado’s wife opens up about couple’s Jewish life
Lacey Schwartz, known for film about reconciling her hidden black paternity, says she and her Democratic candidate husband have embraced passing down Judaism to their twin boys
By Josefin Dolsten
Gershom Sizomu, religious leader of the Abayudaya, in 2003. (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
July 24, 2017, 10:35 am
Uganda’s Jews are down to one meal a day because of East Africa famine
The enduring hunger is devastating, but lacks the spectacle that spurred American Jewish communities to raise millions after disasters in Haiti and Nepal
By Ben Sales
Detail from Repair the World and the Jewish Multiracial Network's haggadah supplement (illustration by Louisa Bertman)
March 31, 2017, 4:25 pm
Passover guides serve up a side of social justice for the seder table
From a fifth cup of wine to 11 spilled drops — and a call to action for dessert — Jewish organizations publish readings on refugees, immigration, converts and the settlements
By Renee Ghert-Zand
President Barack Obama holding up Kylie Schmitter, 4, to light a menorah as Kylie’s sister, Lainey, looks on during a Hanukkah reception at the White House, December 5, 2013. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
January 14, 2017, 3:10 am
For black Jews, Obama represented an America of multiple identities
Jewish Americans have long grappled with the significance of their dual identities. For African-American Jews, that struggle contains yet another dimension
By Ben Sales
'JewAsian' authors Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt (Matthew Zimmerman Banderas)
October 13, 2016, 3:06 am
With Jewish-Asian marriages on the rise, academic couple takes on subject close to home
Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt’s new book tackles assumptions about Jewish identities of intermarried families and their children
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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