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“I’m black and white and Jewish and I’m whole,” Gad, 50, of Los Angeles, said. The award-winning author, speaker and independent writer and film producer shared portions of her story about being biracial and Jewish, during a webinar she conducted Monday evening as part of Black History Month. The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and Youngstown State University’s Center for Holocaust and Judaic Studies hosted the one-hour virtual discussion, “An Evening with Marra B. Gad.”
Gad, who earned a master’s degree in Jewish history from the Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University, said a white Jewish family in Chicago adopted her when she was three days old after she had been born to an unwed white mother and a black father in New York. Even at such a young age, Gad experienced racism after her new parents’ rabbi saw she was biracial and called her “a mistake,” Gad recalled.