Are you religious? How often have I asked or been asked that question. I grew up attending Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, sharing Seders with extended family, attending Hebrew school and becoming a Bar Mitzvah. Rabbi Harold Kushner framed description of an individual’s religiosity as being serious or not. I was not a serious … Continue reading Why My Heart is Here
By Josie Albertson-Grove • New Hampshire Union Leader Aug 1, 2020 Updated Aug 2, 2020 I N HER NEW BOOK, “Finding Home,” photographer Becky Field has continued a years-long project of documenting and celebrating the state’s burgeoning diversity, keeping her lens focused on New Hampshire’s immigrants and refugees. This time, Field gives her subjects space to speak … Continue reading Photo book spotlights immigrant stories
Sixty small cardboard people populated the sidewalk in front of the State House in Concord Tuesday afternoon representing the immigrants being detained by federal authorities at Strafford County Jail. Titled “Don’t Look Away,” the art display was put on by immigrants’ rights group Never Again Action N.H. The two-foot-tall figures were clad in shirts printed with messages … Continue reading Art display calls attention to detained immigrants
