Greetings from Ellenville, NY where the LimmudNY conference may or may not take place. We arrived Thursday evening to discover that the heat was broken at the hotel where the conference was to take place. I got to see most of a screening of “My Mexican Shivah” while we waited for rooms to be organized for us at a nearby sister hotel.

My husband’s session early this morning was cancelled and we should know by 11am whether or not the entire conference will be cancelled. On the positive side, it’s nice and toasty at the sister hotel. I had yummy french toast and mushy eggs for breakfast. And why don’t hotels believe that people drink skim milk? I drink skim and I’m not ashamed of it! Also, I’ve already met some nice, friendly interesting people. Oh and the view from my cozy room is spectacular. If it wasn’t 8 degrees, I would be going sledding on those big, bad mountains…or at least thinking about it in more depth.

“My Mexican Shivah” really was the highlight of yesterday’s evening. The film, which is almost entirely in Spanish with some Hebrew and Yiddish in-between, was a riot! I couldn’t stop giggling. And it was totally awesome to be able to understand almost every word (in Spanish and some in Hebrew) in the film, not to mention the rockin‘ time I had watching a film about Latino Jews! It’s definitely going to go down as one of my best Jewish moments ever. Who would have thought I’d say such a thing about a funny little film about a shiva?

The Spanish-language trailer is below: