Everyone’s been telling me I need to check out this song but I didn’t get a chance until loyal fan, Debbie B. sent me a link. Check out India.Arie’s, “I Am Not My Hair.” Dare I say it…it’s pretty awesome! Ran into someone today from shul where I haven’t been going as much as I’d… Continue reading Another Hairy Day in Los Angeles
A warning, this trailer is definitely not for kids though the scene that inspired me to write this has children in it. Event: Press Film Screening of Nora’s Will (Cinco Dias Sin Nora) Date: Friday, October 15th, 2010 Time: 10am Place: Laemmle’s Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025-3094 Phone:(310) 478-3836 Details:… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Being Jewish in Spanish!
Oh the years of heartache I could have saved myself if I had seen this video as a child!
Event: Taste of LimmudLA: “Post Traumatic Conversion Disorder” Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010Time: 8pm-10pmPlace: Milken Community High School, 15800 Zeldins’ Way, Los Angeles 90049 (parking on site) Join (my friend) Avi Montigny, public speaker, teacher and founder of the only website, jewsbychoice.org, connecting Jewish converts worldwide no matter what stream of Judaism they have converted… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: "Post Traumatic Conversion Disorder" (Los Angeles, CA)
The new Mr. and Mrs. Smith-like TV show, Undercovers follows a black couple getting back into the CIA spy game after retiring five years earlier to have “a normal life” and run a catering business. I can’t remember the last time I saw a show on Network TV that had not one but two people… Continue reading TV That Looks Like ME!
Hey from LA! Wow, I’ve really been getting a lot of email lately from new readers and fans! Thank you for sharing so many of your amazing stories with me! I hope that people can be patient awaiting my responses. I am no longer responding to every email but I do read all of them… Continue reading Hey, hey, hey from LA!
Some great quotes: “And from there the Lord scattered them over the face of the entire Earth.” (Gen. 11:8). What was the sin of the Tower of Babel, and why was it necessary to scatter them and create many languages? Are not geographical distance and the differences of language and culture the primary bases of… Continue reading How Jewish Unity that is really Uniformity Becomes an Evil
Why is there a dating website for Jews of color by Jews of color? Isn’t that “racist”? My good friend Shais Rison aka blogger MaNishtana writes a rousing response to the flood of emails he’s received asking this particular question about his recent decision to start JOCFlock, a dating website for Jews of color and… Continue reading Why is there a dating website for Jews of color by Jews of color?
There are Jubans (Jewish Cubans) and Jewyoricans (Jewish New York Puerto Ricans) and as we all know, there are Jewminicanos and Jewminicanas like moi. But a fan tells me that there is a much cooler term than “Latino Jew” or “Hispanic Jew” coined and probably copyrighted by a clever Jewish New Yorker in the ’60s… Continue reading Are you a Jewminicana?
Yom Kippur from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at http://www.g-dcast.com
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 