Rebecca Walker

I'm  a writer. I'm black, white, and Jewish. Which means I'm Jewish sometimes. At seder. At the nursing home where my grandmother doesn't recognize me. At Channukah when I put a little extra ghelt in my four year old son's 529 college savings plan. The rest of the time I'm Buddhist. And a mom. And black. And a writer. My first memoir, Black, White and Jewish describes this all personally, emotionally, exhaustively. It's very Jewish. And black. And Buddhist. I live in Hawaii. Where everyone is everything except, it seems, Jewish.

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The Michelle Obama Files

Yesterday afternoon, in tandem with my original essay on Michelle Obama below, I joined a…

Michelle Obama and the End of Feminism As We Know It

There were several unforgettable moments in the Obama campaign—Barack’s impassioned speech about race, the DNC…

Chicken Soup for the Black, White and Jewish Soul

Can we talk about chicken soup? I know it’s cliche, but I just suffered the…

Election-flu: Are you Okay?

I don’t know about you all, but I’ve come down with the election-flu. I’ve identified…