I’m supposed to have written an article on interracial dating for a Latino audience, like, weeks ago. But I don’t know where to start. This is coming from the girl whose mother had a white boy fetish. Whose father had a black girl fetish. Whose parents came together with their fetishes and made her. I… Continue reading Warming up for an article: The Latin Side of Interracial Dating
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Me: My brother-in-law’s looking for a job. It’s really tough out there. White Jewish Friend: Oh, yeah. I might know some people who might be able to help. Me: That’s great!!! White Jewish Friend: (Long Pause) Does he have papers? Me: (Clueless) What? What kind of papers? White Jewish Friend: You know, is he legal?… Continue reading Aliens Amongst Us
I stumbled over a Shakira video in my teens when I was in a phase where anything Spanish was “not cool” and everything else was. And then I saw this Columbian/Lebanese chick with mesmerizing long black locks rocking out hardcore in the fastest Spanish I’d ever heard. It was a turning point for me. I… Continue reading Sexy Shakira
I was only kidding about making a plantain kugel. Really, it was a joke. I mean, I’d never even made a kugel before. This Shabbat, I had planned to make a squash kugel (I didn’t even know what squash was before I was Jewish) but we ate out for both meals (thank you, my cool… Continue reading Oh My G-d…IT EXISTS!
In “From Jail to Judaism,” Barbara Bensoussan writes an in-depth profile on Jewish convert Louis Ferrante’s “Journey From the Mob to the Mesorah (Tradition).” According to Ferrante’s website, he “served 8 1/2 years in various maximum security prisons after refusing to cooperate against former associates of the Gambino family. During his incarceration, he educated himself,… Continue reading More on the winding roads converts take to Judaism…
My response in “Everyone’s a little bit racist” to a white Jewish friend telling me she wouldn’t marry a black guy, not even a Jewish black guy, was purely emotional. At the time, I felt as if my still beating heart had been ripped out of my body and skewered and barbecued as I watched… Continue reading Racism and Dating
Okay, it is possible that I have overdosed on vampire stories. Have you?
Who is Adam McKinney and why does he care about “Belonging Everywhere?” Read on and learn more about what he’s been doing for the Jews in Ghana.
How I feel about “good hair” and “bad hair” is pretty much summed up in “Bagels & Locks” and the numerous previous posts on hair where I talk about the history of my own kinky hairstrands. And in “Every friend’s just a little bit racist”, I wrote: “They can tell me on the day that… Continue reading Straight Hair at Any Cost?
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