Over at Zinc Plate Press, I was asked this question and for a second, I didn’t have an answer until finally, it poured out of me. Usually, people are trying to find out what strengths from Judaism, I’m bringing to my Latino side, not the other way around. For the answer to this question, mosey… Continue reading What strengths from your Latino background have you brought to Judaism?
Does biracial Jew Rashida Jones have to deal with this crap? MixedJewGirl is making a career out of schooling the uneducated masses, especially when it comes to race relations. In “Cultural Etiquette: Don’t Ask ‘What are you?’”, she’s tackling how to deal with those “stupid questions” I get all the time as a Jew of… Continue reading Schooling the Uneducated Masses
And that’s all folks. It was six stand-up comedy classes for under a $100 at Santa Monica College. The teacher, Kevin Garbee, was awesome. And he coped well with my weird brand of Jewish Dominican humor. Here’s the last routine. Coming out to my family was difficult. Especially since I wasn’t telling them I was… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #6
Did you hear the one about the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested for trying to break into his own home? No, this is not the beginning of a joke. All over the country people were crying racism and President Barack Obama responded to the whole thing by saying the police… Continue reading From Harvard to Handcuffs
“44 Charged by U.S. in New Jersey Corruption Sweep” (NY Times) Everyone’s talking about the latest scandal involving Jews and money. This time it’s rabbis in handcuffs. No, not even rabbis are above the laws of the land. Will the latest news breed more anti-Semitism? Read “More Bad News for Orthodox Jews” by Jew in the City,… Continue reading Rabbis in Handcuffs?
So as it turns out, this show is NOT going on the road. While my stand-up comedy class classmates will be getting together to perform two Sundays from now, I will be at a big fat Jewish wedding. My body cannot handle ferrying from both. Besides, it’s only a mitzvah to do one of those… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #5: Shabbos is for Shtupping
The film “Arranged” is a New York story about two Brooklyn public school teachers. One teacher is an Orthodox Jewish young woman, Rochel and the other a devout Muslim, Nasira, who become friends in the midst of the period in their life when their well-meaning, but sometimes off-the-mark parents try to marry them off. At… Continue reading Friendship has no religion
Yes, Ivanka Trump is Jewish, now please get over it. I mean, I’m all for Perez Hilton and the mass media wishing her a “Mazel tov” but I am sick of hearing about how you wish she’d cover her elbows, stop touching her fiance and well, in so many words wondering if she’s really Jewish.… Continue reading Conversion is not a joke (especially when it’s not funny)
Is there an art to Tweeting profoundly? (Tweeting is posting to Twitter. Twitter is microblogging at 140 characters or less.) Apparently, The Jewish Channel thinks I got it. For the second week in a row, I’ve made it onto the list of “Most Profound Tweets in Jewish History”. To check out last week’s: click here.
Growing up, I ate pretty much the same thing every day without deviation: eggs (or eggplant) with mangu (mashed green plantains) for breakfast and/or lunch and chicken, rice, beans (my favorite were red but my husband loves then black) and plantains on the side (tostones or maduros). If my mother served anything else, I said… Continue reading Plantain Party
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