I Tick So Many Boxes:
Jewish Families
Speak About Identity

A Four Part Series Event in partnership with the
Jewish History Museum & Holocaust History Center

Session 1: Gugulethu Moyo

In the first event in this 4 part series, we join Gugulethu Moyo, Jewish History Museum’s Executive Director, who speaks about the Polacheck Family.

The first in a 4-part series of deeply personal conversations probing the challenges and assumptions that lie behind Jewish identity. Marion Usher, Ph.D, author of One Couple Two Faiths: Stories of Love and Religion facilitates conversations with family members of individuals in our community about their experiences of the complexity and multiplicity of their identity, the different ways they fit in the Jewish community, and their hopes for creating a culture that honors the whole self.

Session 2: Julia Kinu

The second session, with host Julia Kinu, reflecting on Jewish life and experiences and growing up Jewish and Japanese American in Southern California and Tuscon.

Session 3: Ondrea Bell Levey

The third session, with artist and educator Ondrea Bell Levey, who will reflect on lived experiences of being Mexican and Jewish and the complex feelings that come from navigating various identities.

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Session 4: Tom Sayler-Brown

The fourth and final installment of this series features architect Tom Sayler-Brown, who shares his experiences and transformations with family and relationships as a gay Jewish man.

Thomas Sayler-Brown speaks with Marion Usher during the I Tick So Many Boxes series, March 2021