I spent my three-day weekend doing my part to help movie theaters stay open. I’ve been ignoring my Netflix DVDs in favor of hunkering down at my favorite air-conditioned and crowded theater in Manhattan to celebrate the new summer movie season. Did I mention that I’ve always been obsessed with movies? In junior high, I… Continue reading Back on my movie fix
I recently received an email of a Jewschool post: It’s Our Turn to Help Hundreds of undocumented immigrants suffering under Agriprocessors’s labor practices were detained after a raid at Agriprocessors (Rubashkin’s) in Postville, Iowa. Many of their families have turned to the local Catholic church listed below for food and shelter. I found some local… Continue reading Workers Need Your Help!
In my work to try to get the word out on how the current conversion climate is affecting current and future converts everywhere, I’ve posted my editorial in The Jewish Planet on a more prominent Jewish blog for Jewish women.. Check out my Guest Post on the Jewess blog: A Jewess-by-Choice Reacts to the RCA’s… Continue reading A Jewess-by-Choice Reacts to the RCA’s New Conversion Standards
Yitz Jordan as photographed by Avital Aronowitz for my “Funny You Don’t Look Jewish” article in Presentense Magazine An article of mine, related to a previous blog on the current events related to Orthodox conversion to Judaism was published in a local paper, The Jewish Planet: “A Jew-by-choice reflects on the RCA’s new conversion standards”… Continue reading Reacting to the RCA and current climate surrounding Orthodox conversion
Photo: TheFlowerExpert.com April’s JCC Talk on Jews of Color was as explosive as it was packed! Jews of all colors and walks of live attended. There were two speakers, a Latin American Conservative rabbinical student and Jewish convert (of Jewish ancestery) and a half-Chinese, half-White secular Jewish woman, Jen Chau, who heads Swirl, “a national… Continue reading Reflections on JCC Talk on Jews of Color
I love having sisters. I don’t think I would have survived to adulthood if I had been an only child. I mean, it was tenuous anyway, what with one sister biting me, the other try to strangle me to death and the littlest sister pooping on me. But I have come to appreciate in my… Continue reading Ode to my little sister
I’ve been obsessed for the last few weeks with purchasing a laptop. As previously mentioned, Hubbie and I are headed to Los Angeles for an internship (him) and book writing (me). In between all that work, we’re planning to squeeze in Spanish classes (him) and Art classes (me). Instead of dragging my sickly HP desktop… Continue reading What I was doing when I wasn’t blogging
In Jewish Week, Rabbis Marc Angel, left. and Avi Weiss. I’d only ever been to one protest before I met Rabbi Avi Weiss. Since then, I’ve been to many more and I’ve even sat at home waiting while my husband got arrested protesting the UN (as chronicled in Presentense magazine) with Rabbi Weiss. By the… Continue reading Branching Out
Me (and my hair in all its glory) in Israel circa 2006 And no, I’m not talking about the weather. The Orthodox Jewish world is being turned on its head as conversion becomes entangled in a larger power struggle between the ultra-Orthodox and the more modern rabbinical authorities. One of the latest articles on the… Continue reading Things are heating up
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 