My dad is Jewish and had a jewfro growing up. I didn’t grow up immersed into Jewish cultures and didnt have a lot of Jewish friends. I struggled with my hair for a very long time, my mom often struggled with what to do with it, and I often felt in this wierd in between. I could t figure out what kind of hair I had. My hair couldn’t be compared to black hair but was very different from the hair of my white friends. It wasn’t until recently that I came across Jewish hair, and as I’m reading all these stories abt Jewish kids growing up with thick curly hair I am thinking to myself “that’s like me, I had that experience, THAT is what I look like” and it’s really liberating to know where I fit in terms of hair.
My dad is Jewish and had a jewfro growing up. I didn’t grow up immersed into Jewish cultures and didnt have a lot of Jewish friends. I struggled with my hair for a very long time, my mom often struggled with what to do with it, and I often felt in this wierd in between. I could t figure out what kind of hair I had. My hair couldn’t be compared to black hair but was very different from the hair of my white friends. It wasn’t until recently that I came across Jewish hair, and as I’m reading all these stories abt Jewish kids growing up with thick curly hair I am thinking to myself “that’s like me, I had that experience, THAT is what I look like” and it’s really liberating to know where I fit in terms of hair.