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(J. Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — As a student at London’s Royal Academy of Music in the late 2000s, Jenni Asher lived across the street from the
For many Jews of color, the brand of antisemitism espoused by radical camps of the Hebrew Israelite movement invites bigotry.
Sabrina Sojourner, 69, is a political activist who has spent 2021 leading Shabbat and holiday services online and in-person.
Renee Ghert-Zand is a reporter and feature writer for The Times of Israel. The Moorish Zionist Temple, Harlem, NY, 1929 (James Van Der Zee/The Folklore Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem via the National Library of Israel Digital Collection) Early 1920s newspaper ads for the blockbuster New York Yiddish stage shows Yente Telebende (Loquacious Battle‐Ax), featured a Black artist among the spotlighted performers. This was Thomas LaRue, a Yiddish-speaking singer widely known in the interwar period as der schvartzer khazan (The Black Cantor). Although long-forgotten now, LaRue (w...