Something that many people don’t know just by looking at me is that I am Jewish. Although I am no longer a practicing Jew and don’t currently identify heavily with any organized religion, I was raised in a conservative synagogue and Bat Mitzvah’d as a teen. Being a Jew of color has been for me a very complicated and interesting thing. Recently, after much thought and internal debate, I  signed up for a birthright trip to Israel, and I’m headed there for the first time ever in the Spring. But my thoughts on that are best saved for another time!

This is a post to wish all our Jewish readers, and even the non-Jewish ones, a very happy Rosh Hashanah ( ...