Inside: Black Tibetan Jew in Gaza
Harriet Beinfield, San Francisco, CA A lifetime of identifying with the outsider has enriched me beyond measure. I’m grateful for the multitudes within me.
What do you people call Grandma?
Anonymous, Bethel, CT I’m Caucasian and raised as a Jew. She was Catholic and my daughter’s mother-in-law. I thought that was the only difference between...
Messianic Jew Yogi? Pick one fool!
Signe Wendt, Austin, TX. Jewish by heritage when I began to worship Jesus I was told I was no longer Jewish and I had to...
Don’t glance at coins on sidewalks.
Jill Epstein Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan At a family gathering years ago, a relative of mine inspired me. He told...
But I’m not White… I’m Jewish.
Liza Frolkis, Nevada City, CA. I understand that because modern Jews are descended from multiple populations that ‘Judaism’ is not technically a race. But the...
Jew Test: Pick Up That Penny
Victoria USA I don’t know if this fits on the site, (which I love by the way), because Judaism is a religion and not a...
“Russia? Never been,” mom said, perplexed.
Eileen Spiegler, Fort Lauderdale, FL My parents were both first-generation American Jews — their parents moved to New York from Romania and Russia. Before I...
Best Friend: Pete Lieberman. I’m German…
Bodo Diehn Scottsdale, AZ When I came to the U.S from Germany in 1960, I had never met a Jewish person. Pete Lieberman became my...
Sale Juif avait disparu de mon language …
Michel Weelen, France Né à la fin des années 50, j’ai vu l’antisémitisme revenir dans mon pays dans les années 90 alors que je pensais...
A misunderstood southern white jew
Benjamin Beadle, New Orleans, LA I was born and raised in Louisiana. I was raised a Christian on my father’s side and Jewish on my...
Jew. That’s what they call me.
Kelsey Bamburg, Quinlan, TX I’m not a POC. I will never understand their struggles. I benefit from white privilege. I get called a white girl...
I’m an Eastern European Ashkenazic Jew
Anonymous, Philadelphia, PA . For a long time, I have known that the concept of “race” is a false way to identify or classify human...
I am white. So?
Alan S. Doctor, Cambria, CA. I was born in San Francisco on 15 Sep 1930. Dad was Scotch/English and Mom was Polish with a dash...
I am Isaac; I am Ishmael
Jonathan Aaron, Owings Mills, MD, As a Jew, I have always been intrigued by how Hitler twisted Jewish identity, indicting Jews as having bad blood...
Jew girl raised in Bible Belt
Caren Klein York, ME During 1970 my family lived in Texas with prayer in school. My teacher would walk over to me place my head...
My role model was not black.
Jamal Wills, MD. People often say that black kids need black role models. I sort of cheated. The wild hair, thoughtful eyes, the chin and...
Ashamed of being mostly white. Sadly.
De, Everytown, MO. I chose a picture of a rainbow because I think it fits the subject of my card. I am mostly of Caucasisan...
