Loolwa khazzoom biography

Loolwa Khazzoom (Arabic: لولوا خزوم) is an Iraqi American-Jewish writer, journalist, activist, and musician.
Loolwa Khazzoom is an author, musician, artist, and multicultural educator, as well as a feminist activist and women's self-defense instructor.
A pioneer of the Jewish multicultural movement, Loolwa Khazzoom helped promote Sephardic and Mizrahi culture and priorities within the larger Jewish community.

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Back in the day, when a Jewish programmer wanted to represent “diversity,” she or he would call me in a token effort to involve a non-Ashkenazi/non-White Jew. At the time, there was entrenched denial about Jew-on-Jew racism, and there was no shared language for addressing this painful issue. As such, “representing” was an exhausting role: I could not speak from the heart and say what I really thought. I had to be perky and upbeat, so as to engage interest in what I was saying. I had to stay alert and actively decipher each group’s points of reference – determining how to translate the reality of what was going on in such a way that people could listen.

At the same time, Jewish feminist literature and activist groups were ripe with passionate calls to end the invisibility of women in the Jewish community; yet with rare exceptions, they mentioned not one thing about non-White, non-Ashkenazi Jewish women. The hypocrisy and cluelessness were maddening. Despite these frustrations, I recognized that in Jewish women’s groups, as elsewhere, just making the effort to include one non-Ashke

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Loolwa Khazzoom

American singer

Loolwa Khazzoom
Nationality	Iraqi-American
Alma mater	Barnard College
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Multiculturalism Culture

Loolwa Khazzoom (Arabic: لولوا خزوم) is an Iraqi American-Jewish^[1] writer, journalist, activist, and musician. She has spoken and written extensively about Jewish multiculturalism as well as the cultural traditions and modern struggles of Sephardi, Mizrahi, Yemenite, and EthiopianJews. She was heavily involved in the Jewish feminist movement of the 1990s and is the founder of the Jewish Multicultural Project. She has also worked as a public relations manager for health and wellness practitioners.

Early life

Khazzoom was raised in California by an American Jewish mother and an Iraqi Jewish father.^[2] She received a Jewish education as a child, and first encountered the othering effects of being a Mizrachi Jew at her school: "I was only seven when I started reading from a Mizrahi prayer book, and my teachers would make faces and say nasty things about me in front of

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My name is Loolwa Khazzoom. I was born into an orthodox Jewish family, with an Iraqi Jewish father and a Jewish mother from an old American Christian background. We lived in Montreal, Canada until I was five years old.

When I was five, my father left Mc Gill University in Montreal to teach at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. My parents found a stunning, spacious, and affordable home minutes away from the university. Public schools in the neighborhood were outstanding. In fact, everything seemed perfect...except there were no Jewish schools above fifth grade, and my sister was about to enter sixth.

The first priority in my parents' life was giving my sister and myself a solid religious Jewish education and Jewish identity. Accordingly, we settled in the closest area with a Jewish day school that both my sister and I could attend. Though living in San Francisco gave my father a two-hour commute each day, my parents found the sacrifice worthwhile as a Jewish investment.

I loved my school. I adjusted quickly to the new environment; and within days, my teachers