Be'chol Lashon: A Global Jewish Community

A short film featuring Be’chol Lashon leaders talking about global Judaism and about Be’chol Lashon’s pluralistic and multicultural expressions of Judaism.

Camp Be’chol Lashon 2009

Camp Be’chol Lashon is a nurturing, educational two-week overnight Jewish leadership camp experience in beautiful West Marin for children of racially, ethnically and culturally diverse Jewish families and all those who want to be part of a global Jewish community.

You've read his blog, you've watched his hilarious and provocative videos. Shais Rison is a fifth generation African American Orthodox Jew. Be'chol Lashon National Outreach Director Lacey Schwartz caught up with the man known as MaNisthana and asked him about being an "anti-activist" and about the phenomenon of "Joc slapping."

Namasté! Andrew Esensten of Be'chol Lashon traveled to India last month and visited several Indian synagogues and neighborhoods. This is his report on the Jewish communities in Delhi (one synagogue), Mumbai (10 synagogues), and Cochin (site of the oldest synagogue in the British Commonwealth).

Aliza Hausman, "Jewminicana"
Released: December 31, 2009

In this month’s podcast, Aliza Hausman sits down with Be’chol Lashon New York Director Lacey Schwartz to talk about the challenges and rewards of being a Dominican American convert to Orthodox Judaism, or "Jewminicana" for short.

Rabbi Capers Funnye on Global Judaism

On October 4, 2009, Rabbi Capers Funnye, associate director of Be'chol Lashon, spoke at a Sukkot gathering at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael, CA. He talked about his path to Judaism and his work with emerging Jewish communities in Africa.

Davi Cheng, "One-Stop Shop" Minority
Released: October 30, 2009

Produced by Candy Cheng and Brad Stell for Chinese & Chosen, their interactive master's project at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Davi Cheng is the Los Angeles Regional Director of Be'chol Lashon.

Rahel Musleah on Her Baghdadi Jewish Traditions

Rahel Musleah talks with Be'chol Lashon's Francesca Biller-Safran about her Baghdadi Jewish family and their Rosh Hashanah traditions.

Judaism and Race (mini documentary; 2006)

JUDAISM AND RACE challenges the stereotype that all Jews are white by presenting personal stories of people struggling to reconcile multiple identities as Jews of color.

400 Miles to Freedom (post-production)

400 MILES TO FREEDOM is the story of co-director Avishai Mekonen's search to remember and reconcile what happened to him at age 10 in 1984, when he was kidnapped by slave traffickers in Sudan. Throughout his lifelong journey from Ethiopia to Sudan, Israel, and finally America, his fundamental identity is challenged.

Off and Running (2009)

Off and Running is an American coming-of-age story. But it is one shaped by the new realities of an increasingly diverse American population, especially as those realities affect family life. Brooklyn teen Avery Klein-Cloud is the African-American adoptive daughter of white Jewish lesbians. Her siblings, also adopted, are an older black and Puerto Rican boy and a young Korean-American boy. Avery has grown up loved, supported and happy. Off and Running opens with the popular high school track star in her junior year, looking forward to college and a successful life. Click here for educational resources

Annual Race and Judaism Symposium:
In Every Tongue—In Memory of Gary Tobin

The 2009 Race and Judaism Symposium at Temple University was devoted to themes in memory of Dr. Gary Tobin, the President of the Institute for Jewish Research and Community, who died on July 6, 2009. Tobin, with his wife Diane, also founded Be’chol Lashon/In Every Tongue, a think–tank devoted to the study of Jewish diversity and bringing diverse communities of Jewish people together across the globe. In addition to Jewish diversity, Dr. Tobin’s work addressed methodological problems of Jewish demography; philanthropy; racism and anti-Semitism; and anti-Israelism on college campuses and in the media. 

Watch all four parts here.