Are Jews White? Voices from around the Blogosphere
I have to confess, I am obsessed with The Jew and the Carrot. My favorite procrastination method (well, now that finals are over, my favorite way of spending an upsettingly large portion of my day) is to hop on my Google Reader, hoping, praying, they have another witty post about contemporary Jewish issues explored through food.
"Great! Fascinating! I'll add it to my RSS Feed!" you must be thinking. "But what does it have to do with the current featured Draw-the-Line question?" Well, because last week it featured a guestpost by Hannah Lee, author of the blogA Cultural Mix.
Lee, according to her bio on The Jew and the Carrot, is a Philadelphia-area Chinese Orthodox Jew. And she is just one of many members of the blogosphere exploring the issue of Jewish identity and ethnicity, Her blog deals with the experience of being a Chinese-born American Jew.
Another interesting voice is Hochmah and Masur blogger Ehav Ever. Ever is an American-born Israeli of mixed descent; he identifies as Senegalese, Sephardic Jewish, French and Indian. On Sunday, he wrote an interesting post about his Blog Personality, which dealt with how he identifies himself, what Jewish identity means to him, and his thoughts on race. His perspective is very thought provoking. What are your thoughts on what he has to say?
Self-labeled Jewminicana writer Aliza Hausman offers yet another perspective. The freelance writer, blogger and speaker converted to Judaism. Recently she's touched on the RCA and Current Climate Surrounding Orthodox Conversion and her Reflections on JCC Talk on Jews of Color.
So check out these various Jewish voices; I hope you find them both interesting and thought-provoking. And let us hear your voices by commenting!
"Great! Fascinating! I'll add it to my RSS Feed!" you must be thinking. "But what does it have to do with the current featured Draw-the-Line question?" Well, because last week it featured a guestpost by Hannah Lee, author of the blogA Cultural Mix.
Lee, according to her bio on The Jew and the Carrot, is a Philadelphia-area Chinese Orthodox Jew. And she is just one of many members of the blogosphere exploring the issue of Jewish identity and ethnicity, Her blog deals with the experience of being a Chinese-born American Jew.
Another interesting voice is Hochmah and Masur blogger Ehav Ever. Ever is an American-born Israeli of mixed descent; he identifies as Senegalese, Sephardic Jewish, French and Indian. On Sunday, he wrote an interesting post about his Blog Personality, which dealt with how he identifies himself, what Jewish identity means to him, and his thoughts on race. His perspective is very thought provoking. What are your thoughts on what he has to say?
Self-labeled Jewminicana writer Aliza Hausman offers yet another perspective. The freelance writer, blogger and speaker converted to Judaism. Recently she's touched on the RCA and Current Climate Surrounding Orthodox Conversion and her Reflections on JCC Talk on Jews of Color.
So check out these various Jewish voices; I hope you find them both interesting and thought-provoking. And let us hear your voices by commenting!
posted by Hannah Lau at
9:17 AM
3 Comments:
Thanks so much! I'm so glad to hear you love The Jew & The Carrot. You're welcome to drop by anytime :)
Leah
Editor, http://jcarrot.org
I think we're only focusing on half the "Are Jews White" issue - no, literally, Jews as a worldwide (even American) community are not White. But we are missing the deeper issues of how Jews have been viewed by gentiles for generations and the connotation of the designation "White": a) Jews have rarely been considered part of the larger "White" community in their countries, from Europe to America - "No Jews Dogs or Niggers" signs is the most obvious and simplistic example - and b) do Jews want to self-identify as White, or as something else, in order to separate ourselves from the atrocities the "white" community has committed, especially in this country?
Wow, honorable mention. Thanks!
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