someone asks (very infrequently) in Los Angeles: Where are you from? Where are your parents from? Where are your grandparents from? What’s your maiden name? What’s your background? I’m either going to recite from my blog or tell them: “If you REALLY want to know, you’ll have to Google it.” 🙂
So after the whole Earl thing, my husband decided to refer to me only as Princess Aliza, Lady Aliza and Duchess Aliza and said that it explained my noble (read: holier-than-thou, I’m right, you’re not, bossy) behavior. Not. Cool. My friends and fans on Facebook on the other hand were confused because the current Earl… Continue reading Where I Come From (Part 4) aka MY WORLD TOUR
AND THEN CAME ANCESTRY.COM: As I was ogling and showing all my friends the varied results, the results from Ancestry.com’s new genetic test came back and I had some new perplexing data to deal with: 41% Southern European (Modern Day Italy, Spain and Portugal) 29% West African (Modern Day Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Gabon,… Continue reading Where I Come From (Part 3)-ALIEN!!!!!!!
23andMe’s Speculative Estimate made things a bit more interesting. The largest changes were in my European descent. I was 58.2% European:     46% Southern European:          20.6% Iberian          9.3% ItalianPlus that same pinch of Sardianian (0.1%) and… Continue reading Where I Come From (Part 2)-NONSPECIFIC
As far as I knew before any genealogical tests, I was Dominican: the product of a white Dominican father and a mixed race afro-Dominican mother. I was decidedly Spanish. I was also African. And maybe I was a bit Taino, the Native Americans who were on the island before the Spanish descended upon them. And… Continue reading Where I Come From (Am I a Sardine?)
want to ask me what I am or where I’m from or what my background is anymore. In Los Angeles, it’s a different world. The Jewish world is smaller and the diversity is obvious as you walk down Pico Blvd. past the Persian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues and minyanim. Nobody thinks I’m Hispanic in… Continue reading Trust me, you really don’t…
Before this year ends and Rosh Hashanah begins next week, I want to thank G-d for the most precious gift my family received this year: my niece Leyla. We also received first my niece Emme and various new first cousins. All healthy. And I have a little brother or sister on the way shortly. But… Continue reading I am thankful for…
Funny video on Kangaroo Care for Babies: Please note that for as long as possible, the donate button on my website will be raising money for my niece Leyla and her parents. Leyla has had difficult time in her first days of life but she’s got people praying for her all over the world. The… Continue reading For Baby Leyla
Another head covering eaten by my afro. Yes, dear, I owe you a blog post. There have been many recent developments I’d like to share. Unfortunately, none of them mean coming back to blogging full-time as I am still trying to recover from the downturn in my health since April 2010. But there’s plenty of… Continue reading I.O.U.
More than once, a friend has confused me for someone who believes in Creationism. They see me as an Orthodox Jew and therefore, as a “fundamentalist” and so, of course, they figure I must believe in Creationism like some of the Christians they’ve heard of and fear. As non-Jews or even secular Jews, they can’t… Continue reading The Big Bang Theory & Judaism
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 