In an article in Newsweek, “Beyond Just Black and White,” Raina Kelley writes about wishing her biracial son looked black. Sound familiar? I’ve posted about it before. In a more recent NY Times article, “A Child of Two Worlds”, Nicole Sprinkle stresses in one lengthy rant that she would like her biracial child (half-Columbian/half-white) to… Continue reading Only the White Crayon for me, thanks….
Thanks to Jewlicious (check out the latest on Jewish genes) for continuing to post some jewlicious content. You can follow the singer/songwriter of “Protocols” at @RavShmuel on Twitter or check out his website: RavShmuel.com.
Just what was I expecting “From Ghetto to Ghetto”? As a writer and fellow convert myself to Judaism, I have read many, many books about the journeys others have traveled to conversion. I have loved none so much as Julius Lester’s “Lovesong: Becoming a Jew.” I devoured, gobbled it down, page by page. And yet,… Continue reading How do you get from ghetto to ghetto?
If you’re not a regular subscriber to Latina magazine then you’re missing out! You probably haven’t seen my full page spread in the May 2009 issue for which Michelle Rodriguez graces the cover. You’ll find my piece, “Bagels and Locks” (get it?) on page 76. It is the first piece in Latina‘s Love Your Body… Continue reading Bagels and Locks…and Jewminicana pride!
Maybe it was easier when we gave the kids good Spanish Catholic names? Shakespeare said a rose by another other name would smell as sweet. He hadn’t met any Dominicans. Dominicans are notorious for making up names that are fabulously unpronounceable to the American monolingual crowd. Before I was Aliza, I had a beautiful name… Continue reading A Rose by any other name…
I am many things but I am not sleep deprived. Ever since leaving behind the rat race (teaching at a New York City public school in my case), I have been catching up on much needed sleep. Now I get oodles of it, hours of it and when I’m lucky, a handful of it is… Continue reading Sleep Deprived
“Johancy Torres had never heard of the Holocaust before last fall, but she will soon be tracing the footsteps of Jews at the Dachau concentration camp during a trip for fifth- and sixth-grade students at Public School 86 in the Bronx. “I think I may cry when I see the ovens,” said Johancy, 11, adding… Continue reading The Holocaust Hits Home
Watch as members of the EU walk out of the UN Human Rights Council international anti-racism conference where keynote speaker, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted Israel. Listen to the English voiceover of Ahmadinejad’s speech at the JTA. According to Israel Today, Ahmadinejad insisted the European powers established Israel out of guilt over the Nazi Holocaust.… Continue reading Holocaust Guilt says Ahmadinejad
My latest guilty pleasure is Jewish fiction. It used to be trashy romance novels. I am currently making my way through most of Naomi Ragen’s books. Right off the bat, I noticed that “The Ghost of Hannah Mendes“ was different than her other books. It didn’t focus on the religious community or on Israel. It… Continue reading The Sephardic Holocaust
I didn’t have much Internet access in Los Angeles towards the end of my little Passover vacation there so alas, I didn’t have time to schedule anything for my Sunday slot. Still, I was catching up on your comments on my phone, missing Twitter and Facebook desperately and suffering from the aftereffects of jetlag, sleep… Continue reading Silence
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 