J Weekly
Left: Director Miriam Ferris, student LaTanya Hutchinson and teacher Rabbi Levi Welton. Right: Shalom Dovber Ferris offers assistance to Jeremiah Hutchinson and Daniel Nunoo.
Sunday morning at 10 a.m., six pre-teens in the Hebrew school class at Chabad of the East Bay in Berkeley, CA are taking their seats around a long table. As Rabbi Levi Welton asks for a volunteer to go fetch tallits for the morning prayers, an observer is struck by one thing: For an Orthodox Hebrew school, this is a remarkably multicultural bunch.