{"id":65875,"date":"2007-10-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/around-the-jewish-world-with-loolwa-khazzoom\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T00:00:00","slug":"around-the-jewish-world-with-loolwa-khazzoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/10\/around-the-jewish-world-with-loolwa-khazzoom\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Jewish world with Loolwa Khazzoom"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tJews Without Borders workshop at 溏心vlog免费B站, Oct. 22<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — October 12, 2007 — Author, artist, musician Loolwa Khazzoom will present an interactive workshop entitled \u201cJews Without Borders\u201d on Monday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Multicultural Center, 74 Lower College Road in Kingston. Her appearance is sponsored by 溏心vlog免费B站 Hillel, the Rhode Island Chapter of Hadassah, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Multicultural Center, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 Women\u2019s Center.<\/p>\n


\nWeaving the inter-connected stories of Jews from Africa, the Middle East, Central and East Asia, Southern Europe, and Latin America, teaching lively Jewish music in Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Aramaic and showing colorful slides, maps, and charts, Khazzoom will take participants on a 4,000 year Jewish journey around the world. The workshop is free and open to the public and is intended for both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences.<\/p>\n


\nLoolwa Khazzoom pioneered the Jewish multiculturalism movement in 1990 through such media outlets as The Washington Post, Marie Claire and Rolling Stone, institutions including Harvard University, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Manhattan Jewish Community Center and Skirball Cultural Center, performance venues including the World Music Festival and Jewish Music Festival, and countless Jewish conferences, synagogues, publications, schools and community organizations throughout North America and Israel. <\/p>\n


\nHer work has radically transformed thinking about diversity and Jewish identity, inspiring the proliferation of media articles, educational materials, and community programs on Jewish Multiculturalism. <\/p>\n


\nKhazzoom is the editor of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage (www.tapestry-online.com\/publications.html#camel), a contributor to several anthologies including Best Jewish Writing 2002 and a featured expert in several films including The Forgotten Refugees and Young, Jewish and Left. The former founder and director of the Jewish MultiCultural Project and a founding member of JIMENA (Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa), she directs of Tapestry (www.tapestry-online.com) – a Jewish multicultural education and consulting company. <\/p>\n


\nFor more information, please contact Amy Olson at 溏心vlog免费B站 Hillel, 401-874-2740 or amyolson@mail.uri.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jews Without Borders workshop at 溏心vlog免费B站, Oct. 22 KINGSTON, R.I. — October 12, 2007 — Author, artist, musician Loolwa Khazzoom will present an interactive workshop entitled \u201cJews Without Borders\u201d on Monday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Multicultural Center, 74 Lower College Road in Kingston. Her appearance is sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}