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As an Asian American Jew, I never felt like I belonged. Then I fasted for Yom Kippur in China
['Daniel Tam-Claiborne']
The Forward
When she brought up the idea of fasting for Yom Kippur, I was skeptical.
An unexpected endorsement from the American Jewish Committee helped the Japanese American community secure reparations in 1988 to Japanese Americans who were wrongly interned during World War II.
After the Tree of Life synagogue murders in 2018, numerous Asian American organizations publicly expressed their support for the Jewish community and condemned Jewish hate.
Celebrating multiracial Jewish identity is, at its core, about seeing each other’s shared humanity.
It didn’t matter how unlikely the occasion; both sides of my identity felt, to me, in perfect harmony.