For these US Jews of color, encountering Israel’s diversity was an affirming ex-perience
By Michele Chabin
JERUSALEM – Arel Moodie, the son of a
white Jewish mother and a Black father, experienced a core identity struggle
through most of his teenage years.
“It was one of the biggest pieces
of turmoil in my adolescence,” said Moodie, who was raised in a predominantly
African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn and attended Jewish camps every
summer.
“I asked myself, ‘Who am I? Where do I fit in?’ I felt like I had to make a
choice between the Jewish side, the white side, the Black side.”
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