Periphery at Beth Tzedec

An evocative photographic and film project that celebrates ethnic diversity in the Jewish community.

Type of Exhibition: Art

Join us at Beth Tzedec for the opening of the Periphery Exhibit, an evocative photographic and film project that celebrates ethnic diversity in the Jewish community. Sharing courageous, honest, and deeply personal narratives from individuals of multiracial and multiethnic backgrounds, this project, a partnership between No Silence on Race and Ontario Jewish Archives, centres Jewish voices not historically included in dialogue of who Jewish people are, globally.

Periphery creates space to look, listen, and learn from our narrators as they share their lived realities. Included are testimonies of straddling multiple ethnic identities, exploring sexual identity, navigating converting to Judaism, and the discomfort of invisibility in the very spaces one seeks to call home. Periphery also draws our attention inwards and invites us to examine our own biases that inform our views of who is a Jew. Together, these call us to act upon our shared values and consider how we can create community spaces that foster and support a richer view of communal life community.

 

 

To view the Periphery film or to listen to the participants’ stories, click HERE.

 

CREDITS:

Photographs by Liat Aharoni
Film directed and produced by Sara Yacobi-Harris
Filmed and edited by Marcus Armstrong

 

Exhibit continues through February 2025

Presented by:

No Silence on Race

Start Date:

September 19, 2024

End Date:

February 28, 2025

Synagogue opening hours

Midtown Toronto

Beth Tzedec Congregation
1700 Bathurst Street

Accessibility

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