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		<title>For Jews of every culture and color, identity and belonging are key issues</title>
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Randi Cecchine





Yavilah McCoy, an African-American Jew and Ayecha’s executive director, right, speaks with Yehudah Rothstein at the Jewish Leaders of Color conference in N.Y. 





FOCUS ON ISSUES


For Jews of every culture and color,
identity and belonging are key issues


By Loolwa Khazzoom


NEW YORK, March 20 2005 (JTA) — Pele Browner, a 19-year-old Jew of African-American and Native-American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=22&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hebrew Crunk for a sweet New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s to starting off your New Year.  L&#8217;shana Tovah

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		<title>Message to “mainstream” Jews: We don’t all look like Woody Allen or Barbra Streisand. GET OVER IT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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From Racialicious 
JC
Okay, maybe this is some of my damnhowdidtheweekendflybysoquicklyagain angst talking, but I’m just gonna run with it.   Saw an article in American Jewish Life Magazine about Esti Mamo, an Israeli model. She happens to be Ethiopian, and that of course becomes the focus of the story.
This is yet another instance of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=9&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s just the ticket for Observing High Holy Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin Washington
Editorial page editor, Duluth News Tribune
In my interracial, interreligious family on Chicago&#8217;s Near North Side, I did not have a particularly religious childhood. Yet it was a Jewish one. There were few Jews in our immediate area and no synagogues, so on holidays my mother would take us to the end of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=8&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian couple give new olim Rosh Hashana to remember</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                        by Jenny Hazan
CJN Israel Bureau
SAFED, Israel — When the Tzahal Absorption Center in Safed suffered a direct hit from a Katyusha rocket fired by Hezbollah on July 13 – one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=7&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yavilah McCoy has a story to tell that spans generations</title>
		<link>http://blackandjewish.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/people-yavilah-mccoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She’s African-American and she’s Jewish
Yavilah McCoy has a story to tell that spans generations.
By HELEN T. GRAY
The Kansas City Star












PHOTO FROM YAVILAH MCCOY






Most people are unaware of someone like Yavilah McCoy: an African-American and a fourth-generation Jew.
“People are surprised to find a Jew of color,” said McCoy, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=6&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s a Jew? I&#8217;m a Jew.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this nearly a decade ago, and thought I&#8217;d share it with you.  I welcome your stories as well.  -src
Who&#8217;s a Jew?
By Sheree R. Curry, Copyright 1998
I went to an invitation-only Jewish event the other day that was being held at the reception hall section of a club downtown. A security guard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=5&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Acquainted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 06:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, I am Sheree, the creator of this site and a Jew by Choice.  I became interested in Judaism while a senior in high school, after taking a religion course with a segment on comparative religions.  I began studying to become a Jew during my freshman year of college and I officially became a conservative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=4&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the blog for BlackandJewish.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BlackandJewish.com welcomes you.  We hope that this forum will become your extended community.  That it will be a place where we meet to share ideas on a variety of topics from religion to culture to current events as they relate to the Jewish community, Jews of Color as a whole, and the African [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackandjewish.wordpress.com&blog=408148&post=3&subd=blackandjewish&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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