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A bowl of chocolate-coated matzah toffee

A Guide to Matzo

"Most people find me plain and dry Packaged in a simple box, living a simple life, Mistaken for a simple cracker"
La Convention Nationale by Danielle Deculus for The Lessons I Learned in France

The Lessons I Learned in France

It would have been a very different experience had I not known the history behind each place, person, and event.
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Black Bat Mitzvah

“In predominantly white and Jewish spaces, I was ignored, ostracized, tokenized, discriminated against, othered.”
Fractured Cracks by Natalie Dweck Romero - Photo by Alex Berman

Fractured Cracks

“We’ve been labeled and scrutinized, we can’t be seen for one language, for one way of being, any longer.”
Broken Lines of Belonging by Natalie Dweck Romero - Photo by Danielle Deculus

Broken Lines of Belonging

“The stranger thing was, it felt like I’d been staring down my whole life.”
Stranded by Danielle Deculus

Stranded

“Oftentimes we feel stranded. Alone. Helpless. Lost.”
A Message to my Squirrel Hill Jewish Community from a Jew With a Touch of Color by Naomi Kitchen - Photo by Sonja Lippman

A Message to my Squirrel Hill Jewish Community from a Jew...

“To Jews, did my color either cancel my Jewishness or my Jewishness cancel my color, never coexisting?”
Raised to Be Independent, Bold, Strong, Wild and Free by Naomi & Rona

Raised to Be Independent, Bold, Strong, Wild and Free

Naomi and her mother, Rona, consider how the women who raised them affected their outlooks.
The Man by Emilia Cooper

The Man

A poem about the man who runs the world.
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