The subjects include the famous, such as basketball player Sue Bird, and the less well-known, such as Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) leader Uri Ben Baruch.
For this project, I reached out to Bay Area artists and tastemakers and asked them: What piece of Jewish culture from the past quarter century brings you joy, and why?
In the summer of 1960, Howard University students and their white Jewish allies picketed for 10 weeks outside Glen Echo Amusement Park in Montgomery County.
Public celebrations of Juneteenth have been held in African American communities for generations, especially in the South, but they are a relatively new phenomenon in Jewish communities.
A “beef” is just a mean poetry contest, but the stakes of this one felt higher for Jewish fans of hip-hop like me. A loss for Drake, who has celebrated his Jewishness in his art, is a loss for Jews.