Many guest posts this week! Check out my guest post over at MixedJewGirl World. In “A Jewminicana Laments”, I discuss the pain and incredible disappointment I experienced when I was rebuffed for explaining to white Jews that Benjamin Cardozo was not the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.
Just when you thought it was safe to go to the museum, a shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum says different. Why would anyone shoot up a Holocaust museum of all places?
Rebecca Rubin Okay, so American Girl created a Jewish doll. Her name is Rebecca Rubin and not all her outfits are tznius (modest). She’s growing up in New York City in 1914, right around when my great-grandmother was born. She’s a Russian Jewish girl who wants to “stay true to her heart as she follows… Continue reading The Jewish American Girl doll meets the Dominican American Girl doll
In “10 Questions with Author Ernest H. Adams”, I got up close and personal with author Ernest H. Adams about his memoir, “From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African American Journey to Judaism.” Adams had some noteworthy things to say about his experiences during Jim Crow, living in the Jewish community and what he thinks about the… Continue reading Q&A with From Ghetto to Ghetto Author
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31120874#31120874 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Okay, I understand Tom Brokaw asking Barack Obama what he thinks the Iranian preisdent could learn from a trip like his to Buchenwald. But hearing Brokaw follow that question up with “What can the Israelis learn from your trip to Buchenwald? And… Continue reading Obama has no patience for Holocaust denial or Tom Brokaw’s leading questions
People who don’t even know where the Dominican Republic is know that Dominicans are good at baseball. My husband likes to joke that even though I’m by no means an athlete, I have a wicked curve ball. Is it in the blood? Check out this trailer for “Sugar”, the story of Miguel “Sugar” Santos, Dominican… Continue reading Baseball has never been so sweet….
In “Welcoming the New Jew”, I review a memoir by Reform convert Sally Srok Friedes. Her book, “The New Jew” is fresh, funny and engaging even as it takes us to the painful twists and turns of acclimating oneself to the Jewish community. This book has a great deal to teach every movement in the… Continue reading Welcoming the New Jew
My intention in posting “Thou Shalt Not Oppress the Ger” was to highlight a very ugly reality that one convert lives in because it is a reality that unfortunately, many converts live in. I have been lucky, so far, that it is not my reality. I have been spared this lot. Mostly, I get snide… Continue reading Further Reflections on Yesterday’s Post
In honor of all the self-hating Jews, Jew-hating everyone else and just regular equal opportunity haters.
I’m pretty open about the fact that I’m a convert. Obviously. But there are plenty of people who feel its unsafe to open up about this fact because well, they know they will more often than not be judged unfavorably. So, what’s it like feeling forced to hide part of your identity? Read an Anonymous… Continue reading In the Closet
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 