My sister is in New York missing out on the Passover festivities. When I told her we would be going away for Passover, she asked where she was supposed to go for her seders. And no, my sister’s not Jewish. She called me up to tell me she’s watching Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire… Continue reading Did you hear the one about…?
Please note that posts are scheduled to go up on days when I will not be using my computer in observance of the Passover/Pesach holiday.
Oy. Now I have to practice my Spanish, learn Hebrew and Ladino. I’m going to need a good long life for this kind of venture. I’m actually doing much better in Ladino than Hebrew. Can you guess which Pesach song this is?
Jewlicious Responds to Newsweek‘s “Is Your Rabbi Hot or Not?” with signature snarkiness. Jewlicious asked me via Twitter to take a look. I didn’t expect to get riled up but then I noticed the line, “What kind of name for a rabbi is ‘Rolando’?” Jewlicious was poking fun at Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon who was… Continue reading Spanish People Revolt!
I am on a plane to Los Angeles where I will be spending Pesach/Passover. Oh, the happy times we will have together trying to digest matzah. Prune juice: good. Matzah: bad.
Read the article “8 Things NEVER to Say to a Mixed-Race Colleague” and then you’ll understand my 8 responses. 1. Do people actually ask this directly? Jesus! 2. I look foreign as compared to what? 3. See? I don’t make this stuff up. Apparently, mixed race people get told they’ll make beautiful babies all the… Continue reading Did you really just say that?
The Jerusalem Post story, “Spiritual odyssey turned nightmare” introduces us to Rachel, an Orthodox convert whose conversion in Rome was recognized by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel but not the Interior Ministry. Oh yeah and she’s married to a kashrut supervisor, she’s pregnant and living in Israel without any rights. But Rachel’s not as worried… Continue reading So this is Zionism?
Should I order Chinese? I don’t mean food. Why didn’t Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt adopt me? Why didn’t Madonna adopt me? These are questions I ask myself when I hear about their latest quests for international adoptions. Roland Martin has a better question: “Why aren’t celebrities adopting U.S. kids?” Martin claims that “according to… Continue reading I’m American and I’m up for adoption
With “Love in Black and White,” Matthew Hunter has written a passionate love letter to interracial relationships in The Michigan Daily. He cites a Time Magazine statistic that says interracial marriages have spiked by almost 1000% since the ban of anti-miscegenation laws. I believe him. Though recent statistics show the rate of Asians and Latinos… Continue reading Loving in Black, White and Jewish
Black people love Sally and Johnny! Ah, satire when done right can be utterly unpleasant and terribly funny. At least, that’s how it seems the site Black People Love Us, the tales of “a fictional white couple and their failed attempts to relate to black people,” have been taken by viewers. People can’t decide whether… Continue reading Black People Love Us!
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