The Karaites in Daly City have always done things a little differently from the rest of America’s Jews. Now the community has something else that sets them apart: A new Torah scroll that contains nekudot (vowels), te’amim (trope symbols) and colons indicating the ends of sentences.
As he mixed matzah ball ingredients in a bowl during a recent episode of his online cooking show, Tsutomu Shimura reminisced about his bubbe. “I grew up going to Jewish delis with my grandmother,” Shimura said while preparing “Judon” — Japanese udon noodles with a Jewish twist.
I searched the online archive of J. The Jewish News of Northern California for the term “Jews of color” and was surprised by what I found.
Under Keith Naftaly’s leadership, KMEL became the top-rated station in San Francisco. He dubbed it “The People’s Station” and sought to build a true community around it.
This is Gundar-Goshen’s fourth novel and her first set in the U.S. It is a very American novel in its examination of antisemitism, racial tensions and greed. But it is an unmistakably Israeli novel, too.
“If the Jewish community ever wanted to have a relationship with the Black community, I am the bridge that they would want to cross to get there,” Rabbi Tamar Manasseh says in the new documentary “Rabbi on the Block.”
The African Hebrew Israelites are a small community with little political power, yet their story is important because it reveals some of the challenges faced by non-Jewish minority groups in the Jewish state.
Russian history has long provided rich source material and inspiration to Jewish writers, especially fiction writers, from Isaac Babel to Elana Dkyewomon to Gary Shteyngart.
“It’s not kosher to show the film,” Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb of Berkeley told J. “How would we feel if it were about Harvey Weinstein? It wouldn’t even be a question. So how is this different?”
“Tupac was a kid, and he needed a lot more guidance,” Steinberg said. “I was too young to understand what I know now. I wish that I could have had more influence, because I always stayed connected to him.”