Posts Tagged ‘Loolwa’

Columbus of Hidden Jews

Posted January 25, 2011 Culture, News No Comments


Itamar Eichner

Israel Jewish Scene
It happened six years ago. Michael Freund decided to go on a South American adventure. Armed with high motivation, he entered a small canoe and went off into the Amazon River of Peru, quickly finding himself among wild jungles filled with trees and animals resembling those which appear in children’s nightmares.

Suddenly, he noticed a group of Native Americans in a canoe approaching him. He waved to them. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed something strange – the names of their boats were typical Moroccan Jewish names: Ben-Zaken, Levi, Ben-Shushan.

Freund, the Christopher Columbus of Jews, smiled with satisfaction. Right then and there he knew his journey was a successful one: Another lost Jewish tribe had been found.

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Good Reads

Posted June 1, 2010 News No Comments

A familiar voice in Jewish multicultural circles, Loolwa Khazzoom, has two recent articles of interest published on her site, Loolwa.com.

I’m So Over Euro-Centric Jewish Presumptions, on the entrenchment of Eurocentric orientation in Jewish culture and the resulting alienation of non-European Jews. And, If you want a different constituency, try a different paradigm, which comments on the necessity of including non-European cultural elements if you seek to attract diverse Jews to your organization.