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"
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.
Black Bat Mitzvah
“In predominantly white and Jewish spaces, I was ignored, ostracized, tokenized, discriminated against, othered.”
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
“The stranger thing was, it felt like I’d been staring down my whole life.”
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
Naomi and her mother, Rona, consider how the women who raised them affected their outlooks.