I’ve been largely quiet on race, lately. I’ve done this, despite the fact that every other time I’ve posted about Sonia Sotomayor someone has tried to call me out on this. I’ve been reading, as I always do, all the latest news on racism, racism all over the world, racism in America, liberals and conservatives… Continue reading Ricci, Race and Wearing Blinders
Just discovered “Ill Doctrine,” a video blog by hip hopper Jay Smooth, and I thought I’d share this video on “How To Tell People They Sound Racist.” Be sure to check out his other videos if you like this one, “If Bill O’Reilly was a rapper” is another good one. The trouble is that many… Continue reading How to Tell People They Sound Racist
Okay, how many times can I blog about Be’chol Lashon, seriously? I can’t help it. I love their monthly newsletter. Even with being a Jewminicana myself, it’s easy to forget how diverse Jews are when I show up at a typical Jewish lifecycle function and I’m the darkest person in the room. Okay, sometimes there… Continue reading Loving the Jewish diversity
I am spending this 4th of July in good company out here in Los Angeles with many cool folk from the synagogue where my husband is interning. We’re having a major Sheva Brachot blast to celebrate a recent wedding. Since the 4th falls on Shabbat, we won’t be barbecuing but you can be sure that… Continue reading Being a Cool Jew on Independence Day!
All Jews are white or Eastern European. (And eat kugel and gefilte fish and cholent every Shabbat because otherwise, they wouldn’t REALLY be Jewish.) Jews don’t welcome converts. (Is this a myth? Alright, in some communities it is. But in others, as we’ve seen in Israel and South America, it’s a fact. A sad, sad,… Continue reading Jewish Myths
My husband has decided that this is the summer I’m going to learn to drive. Actually, he decided I was going to learn to drive last summer but I came up with plenty of excuses. I managed to go a whole year without every picking up that DMV manual. This year, my husband got smart… Continue reading Driving Miss Crazy: Why I Cut Class, Cried All Afternoon and You know, Other Stuff…
I farted during my first stand-up comedy class. And no one laughed. I knew I shouldn’t have had that butter over my baked potato for dinner. But I did. I had it. And I had it without protection. Lactaid pills are so expensive and so every now and then, I take risks. As you well… Continue reading My first stand-up comedy class
It’s the middle of the night, 2am when I’m writing this blog though you’ll see it posted around 12am on a different day. I ended up making a list of stupid questions people ask me now that I’m a Jewminicana. I’m thinking “Are you Jewish?” and the rest of the countless, mind-numbing, repetitious, interrogations, Q and A, could… Continue reading Welcome to Insomnia
How did Michael Jackson go from being a proud black man to, well, becoming a “white lady”? Whether it’s you or your kids who are wondering, the Anti-Racist Parent blog has a piece called “Explaining Michael Jackson.” In “Michael Jackson was a genius and his genius was black”, Nesha Z. Haniff compares how Michael was… Continue reading Michael Jackson, The Victim
Whether or not, you love it or hate it, The Jerusalem Post claims Judaism is getting in touch with its feminine side. You’ve heard my spiel before in previous posts about whether or not I would call myself a feminist, much less a Jewish feminist. And here is a redux. In short, I grew up… Continue reading The softer side of Judaism
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 