Listen to an incredible one of a kind account of the Ethiopian Jewish community’s homecoming to Jerusalem.
There is so much potential, I am shocked no one has done much with it.
So, who gets to decide how “ultra” our Blackness is?
Video games based on comic books have a mixed history. Many of the early games were not of the best quality, but there were a few good ones. Comic book-based games gradually became better, culminating in the masterpieces of the Batman Arkham games and Insomniac’s PlayStation exclusive Spider-Man game. Games based on comic books are…
How can I not be?
A group of three friends from college decided to meet at a cafe one day to catch up on each other's lives and new jobs.
"I'm the new librarian at my neighborhood library and I couldn't be happier," the first one said. "They told me that'd I'd already nailed the position in the interview when…
There's a scene in the 1995 movie Batman Forever, where Batman and his prospective love interest, Dr. Chase Meridian, have their first exchange.
"Well, let's just say I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Bats aren't rodents, Dr. Meridian."
"Really? I didn't know that."…
Not all Black Americans have the same history. But we’re all Black.
Role Playing Games have long borrowed from a variety of sources. When it comes to Judaism, one game actually went further.
How do we start to acknowledge the diversity of Black Jewry?
Never Eastern Europe. Never Poland. We had enough roots in places where the family tree was still flourishing.
I've written before on how sinat chinam, the "baseless hatred" that is cited as the cause for the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, does not only refer to raw hatred, but also apathy and a lack of concern for the pain of one’s fellow.
It is a rhetoric that has sadly been increasingly…
Hi. I’d like to introduce myself. My name is MaNishtana.
I've spent the past decade writing and speaking on racial and religious identity and how that intersection and perception manifests in America, in both the mainstream Jewish community and the Black American community, from racism to anti-Semitism, and how both affect Jews of Color. And…