Having flashbacks from the Bar/Bat mitzvah snap story today 😳😅 shoutout to those who came to mine way back when 😫
— ashley (@therealashL) May 13, 2017
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DovBear: When people bring their own thoughts and their own experiences to the group -where they offer and accept criticism, and honor the positions of others- our ideas are refined, and this process makes the ideas better. So though I agree that Judaism is not a democracy, I insist that democracy has a certain holiness because when it is used correctly and in good faith, the community draws nearer to the truth.
@tatancast I've determined that I am Filipino and my wife is Israeli. Thanks for the insights!
— JoeAm (@societyofhonor) ינואר 1, 2016
Rodel Flordeliz: As Filipinos are well-known for their hospitality, Israelis are also well-known for their spirit of giving – which binds the two peoples together as part of the Judeo-Christian faith.
Steven G. Vegh: His congregants include Darva Gruber, who has Filipino, Chinese and Spanish roots. Growing up Catholic in Hawaii, "I didn’t know any Jews," she said.
Her family moved to New Jersey, where she met and married her Jewish high school sweetheart. She agreed to raise their children Jewish.
In Norfolk, Gruber enrolled the children in Hebrew school, then started attending Temple Israel’s services and studying Judaism.
"What attracted me to it was, it was very welcoming." Gruber converted in 1996 and had her bat mitzvah in 2001.
As an Asian American, Gruber said being an ethnic minority in a religious minority is no big deal for her.
"I’m used to that environment. I’ve always been the different one, unless I get to go to Asia."
Mary Ann Miller, who is part Filipino, also converted after marrying her Jewish husband, John, who has Moroccan roots.
Though she was called a "shiksa" by someone who didn’t know the word disparages gentile women, Miller said she feels at home at Temple Israel. (The speaker later apologized.)
"You’d think I’d feel uncomfortable being Filipino in a Jewish synagogue, but absolutely not."
anna clare spelman: JEWS IN THE PHILIPPINES?!
||Keren laughs as she helps out with the Bat Mitzvah celebrations.||
anna clare spelman: I had NO idea.
Ann Hirschhorn, Silver Spring, MD.: My parents grew up in a time where interracial couples were criticized for diluting the race of their children. My father expressed a fear that because I was of a mixed race background, I might not feel that there was a culture or place where I belonged. My mother grew up in the Philippines, within a culture where whiteness was prized and being mestiza was preferable to being a full Filipino. Because of this I grew up constantly being told how lucky I was to be mixed, to have the best of both worlds, to have experiences in both cultures. They bought me books like “Who am I?” and reflected to me a narrative of my life where I got to experience things much more interesting and diverse than my peers. I believed it made me special. But then, there were the times that I also felt that I didn’t belong. The only Filipino in Hebrew school, B’nai brith, to have a bat mitzvah. Using Filipino words for private parts and bathroom talk avoided the possibility that I use a “bathroom word” that anyone would recognize at the wrong time.
It also led to a lot of confusion when I didn’t know the same potty words as everyone else. (I didn’t know what an armpit was until 4th grade!) With my mother’s family when Taglish and kapampangan words were thrown around with the assumption that I would know and recognize them. Feeling stupid or not Filipino enough when I didn’t know what they said or how to respond. Being biracial has meant for me that I was often confused in a place where I was supposed to feel at home. It meant being both and insider and an outsider in two very different worlds. It did also mean, that I got to experience some of the best of both of those worlds. I got to feel a part of both the Filipino, Jewish and American narrative. Holding inside of me a place where all those things could intersect. Living with cultural conflicts in my home gave me the ability to think critically and to take ownership of my worldview. By virtue of having two, often opposing views, in one family, in one home, I learned that there were many ways to understand myself and the world. I do feel profoundly lucky to have the experiences that I have of being Filipino, white, Jewish, mestiza, mixed, hapa. But it was important to me to own both the beauty and the struggle.
"Fifty Years to Life"
JEWISH EXPONENT (WHAT IT MEANS TO BE JEWISH IN PHILADELPHIA): The idea for the play, which traces the interfaith relationship of Charles (who is Jewish) and Hope (who is Chinese/Filipino-American) from their first date through their next 50 years together and apart, first came to Schulner on a 17-hour road trip from Seattle to Minneapolis. He says that on the trip, “I became acutely aware of time — it struck me just how malleable it was, and I knew I wanted to capture that for the stage.”
One of the most critical of these phases is the transformation experienced by Charles once the couple’s daughter is born. “He is not deeply connected to his faith as a young man,” explains Erin Reilly, the artistic director of Theatre Horizon. “But once he has children, he starts thinking about the faith and traditions he is going to pass down to his daughter.” As a result, Reilly says, he pushes Hope to allow their daughter to become a Bat Mitzvah, which strengthens his connection to his heritage
Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.