The decision to cast a Black actor in the role of the non-Jewish interloper plays into harmful assumptions about who does and does not belong in Jewish spaces.
Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto, the protagonist of Berkeley-raised author Claire Stanford’s debut novel, works at the San Francisco headquarters of “the third-most-popular internet company.”
Downes has been using her platform to expose listeners accustomed to the standard classical fare — concertos and sonatas by mostly white, male and European composers — to more pieces by women and people of color.
“My Fine Fellow: A Delicious Entanglement” is Jennieke Cohen’s second young adult novel set in an alternate 19th century Britain, and her first with Jewish characters, along with several original recipes.
Raised mostly in San Diego by a Russian American Jewish father and African American Jewish mother, Westside Gravy (né Noah Shufutinsky) takes pride in belonging to the Jewish and African diasporas.