Rivkush
by Rivka "Rivkush" Campbell
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About this podcast
Rivka "Rivkush" Campbell, a Jew of Jamaican descent, has been one of Canada's most vocal Jews of colour. In this podcast, she interviews fascinating Jews of colour from all over the world, opening dialogue with the mainstream Jewish community about their views, perspectives and experiences.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Roots, Identity, and Belonging: A Journey Through African Jewish Heritage · 54 minJessica Jantjies is a Cape Town-based writer exploring African Jewish identity through her own multi-layered heritage. As a colored South African with indigenous, African, and…
- A message from Rivka · 1 min · Season 1As this chapter of my podcast journey comes to a close, I want to express my deepest gratitude to The CJN for the incredible opportunity to share these stories and conversations…
- Galeet Dardashti on reviving Middle Eastern Jewish culture through music · 44 min · Season 1Even though Galeet Dardashti grew up in an Ashkenazi household, she knew she was different. Her family's culture, background and music didn't feel or sound like that of other…
- With 'Jew Jitsu', Dmitri Shufutinsky wants to flip anti-Israel arguments on their head · 48 min · Season 1How many times have you heard claims that Israel is an imperialist country? That Israelis are settlers on Arab land? That Israel is an apartheid state? As a black, gay Jewish…
- A new illustrated book hopes to redefine 'What Jewish Looks Like' · 36 min · Season 1Growing up, Liz Kleinrock never felt like she fit into her Jewish community in Washington, D.C. Born in Korea and adopted into an Ashkenazi family, she constantly felt pressure…
- 'It pains me': Gad Saad reflects on the unfulfilled potential of a pluralistic Lebanon · 40 min · Season 1Gad Saad, the Canadian professor and social media icon with well over a million followers online, grew up in Lebanon as one of a rapidly decreasing number of Jews in the 1970s…
- Adiel Cohen channels his Yemini heritage to fight for Israel—on two fronts · 44 min · Season 1Adiel Cohen remembers Oct. 7 like it was yesterday. He was at his sister's house in Northern Israel when he woke up to hear his phone buzzing with rocket alerts and…
- Ysabella Hazan wants to flip the narrative of Jewish 'colonization' · 48 min · Season 1When the University of Windsor recently conceded to the demands of its pro-Palestinian encampment protesters, officials signed an agreement that stated, among other anti-Israel…
- In her poetry, Zilka Joseph channels the stories of her Bene Israel ancestors in India · 32 min · Season 1There's a fact Zilka Joseph likes to toss out to prove how old the Bene Israel culture is: the community, native to the Indian subcontinent, spent centuries unaware of what…
- How Sarah Kolker uses art to inspire her communities—Jewish, Black and beyond · 45 min · Season 1When Sarah Kolker returned to her hometown neighbourhood in Philadelphia as a young adult, she noticed a run-down park that she grew up around. She remembered how her mom…
- Leah Finkelstein wants Orthodox Jews of colour to feel welcome—so she's offering to take them to shul · 41 min · Season 1As an Orthodox Jewish woman of colour, Leah Finkelstein knows what it's like to feel like an outsider. Unfortunately, her kids know, too—like when one of them scored a…
- 'We want to belong to a common narrative': Devyani Saltzman on making systemic changes happen · 42 min · Season 1Devyani Saltzman was born into the arts and culture world, the daughter of two filmmakers—one Jewish, one Indian. Raised on production sets, she went on to write dozens of…
- In her art, Tamara Podemski channels the survival of her ancestors—both Jewish and Indigenous · 1 h 10 min · Season 1As the descendent of Holocaust and residential school survivors, Tamara Podemski understands generational trauma better than most. She grew up hearing those stories and…
- Chaya Lev, a Black Jew in Israel, desribes life in Israel after Oct. 7—and why Palestinians aren't people of colour · 42 min · Season 1When Chaya Lev converted to Judaism, she was determined to move to Israel. Later on, after surviving breast cancer, she decided to transform her dream into reality, making aliyah…
- Hear about how Sara Braun moved from Holland to NYC and became 'That Black Hasidic Lady' · 53 min · Season 1Sara Braun grew up as a Black Jewish woman in a small town in the Netherlands, which was, she says, exactly what most North Americans imagine: windmills stretching up from fields…
- Does Canada really need another organization to 'combat anti-Jewish hatred'? Daniel Koren thinks so · 42 min · Season 1With the third largest Jewish Diaspora in the world, Canada has no shortage of communal organizations: B'nai Brith, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon…
- How Nissim Black went from gangster rapper to Christian convert to making aliyah · 1 h 0 min · Season 1One of Israel's most exciting rappers is Nissim Black, the Seattle-born Hasidic musician whose conversion story is as fascinating—and heartfelt—as his art. Born in Seattle to…
- For globetrotting filmmaker Charly Wai Feldman, Judaism is a borderless identity · 37 minCharly Wai Feldman is a woman of the world. Born in Montreal to a Jewish father and mother from Hong Kong, she lived in Jamaica and Vietnam before settling in the United Kingdom…
- These rural Ugandan villagers dedicated themselves to Judaism—but Israel won't recognize them · 46 min · Season 1When Tamás Wormser, a documentary filmmaker from Montreal, first heard about a small community of Jewish Ugandans who live in a rural village, he knew he had to visit. He was…
- Live from Holy Blossom: How Jennifer Podemski blends Jewish and Indigenous generational trauma in her new TV show, Little Bird · 50 min · Season 1During the infamous Sixties Scoop, the Canadian government forcibly relocated tens of thousands of Indigenous children, separating them from their families and placing them in…
