In this video, Arun Viswanath shares his experience growing up in a home speaking Yiddish and Tamil and learning to appreciate his multicultural upbringing and how that connects him to the global Jewish community.
In this video, Ava Rigelhaupt shares her experience as a Jewish Chinese neurodiverse adoptee and her pride and joy in being a part of the resilient international Jewish community that harmonizes diverse traditions, songs, and foods.
The American Jewish community is a beautiful tapestry made up of individuals from many diverse backgrounds and with many ways of being Jewish. There’s no one American Jewish experience, and each unique perspective only adds to the richness of the Jewish story in America. Bobby Lapin, Chair of AJC's Contemporary Jewish Life, shares his American Jewish experience.
In this video, Dr. Saba Soomekh, Associate Director of AJC Los Angeles, shares her experience growing up as a first-generation Persian American and how her identity as a Persian Jew has shaped her life, from family Shabbat dinners to a career as a professor of religious studies and an advocate for global Jewry and against antisemitism.
In this video, Erica Mindel, Assistant Director of Program Development at AJC Project Interchange, shares her experience as a progressive Zionist American Jew, from engaging in dialogue about the Israel-Palestinian conflict on her college campus to serving in the Israel Defense Forces.