“I’m Cuban. I’m Jewish. I’m Cuban. I’m Jewish?”
That was more or less the monologue in the mind of Maria Ramos-Chertok growing up in New Jersey as the child of a Catholic Cuban immigrant father and an American Jewish mother who had converted to Catholicism. One could say she grew up more than a little uncertain about her identity.
“It’s taken me my whole life to come back to my roots, and understand who I am,” Ramos-Chertok reflected on a recent visit to the JCCSF, where she consults and offers trainings for customer relations staff.
Now, there is a web site to help other women of mixed Latina and Jewish heritage to navigate the experience.
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