Event: Ernest H. Adams Speaking on “From Ghetto to Ghetto”Date: Tuesday, November 17thTime: 7:00 pmPlace: Memphis Jewish Community Center, 6560 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38138, 901-761-0810 Please come and experience Dr. Ernest H. Adams’ original voice and fresh perspective. “From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African American Journey to Judaism”, is a memoir by Ernest H.… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Ernest H. Adams Speaking
When I made a comment about how cool it is that “Glee” might have a Jewish Asian character (aptly named Tina Cohen-Chang), everyone in the room [all white Jews] made a face like someone had passed gas. Funny until that comment, they were smiling or at least calm while I described how “Glee” put on… Continue reading Being Jewish & Asian isn’t a joke…duh!
Sometimes I think I must be going crazy. Never before in my life have I stumbled across so many well-meaning (and not well-meaning) white people (usually Orthodox Jews) who consider themselves “not racist” but make all manner of racist comments in front of me. Growing up, I heard racist comments from my family members but… Continue reading From Safe to Unsafe and Back Again
Thank you for being my friend. Here are some guidelines so that our friendship can be a pleasurable experience for all of us. Please don’t make fun of gay people. Please don’t make fun of black people’s hair. Please don’t tell ask me why I don’t straighten my hair. Please don’t make fun of Mexican… Continue reading Please don’t…
In The NY Post story, “Prof busted in Columbia gal ‘punch’”, a black Columbia professor punches out a white female university employee while discussing white privilege. Punching people doesn’t teach them anything about racism. It just makes you look racist. And violent. Duh. Unfortunately, the comments section on the story devolved into a bunch of… Continue reading Racism with a Punch
Nishmat at Sotheby’sJoin American Friends of Nishmat for a brunch and private viewing of the upcoming Sotheby’s sales of Judaica & Israeli Art, with a tour conducted by Sharon Liberman Mintz, Senior Consultant for Sotheby’s. Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Time: 10:30am-Noon Place: Sotheby’s New York, 1334 York Avenue at 72nd Street, New York, NY… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Nishmat at Sotheby’s
The Chicago Tribune story “Korean-Americans learn Spanish to help out at work” profiles Korean-American employers learning Spanish to be able to communicate with their Hispanic employees. That’s kinda awesome. I mean, I know people who won’t learn Spanish and are Hispanic. I’ve heard of Jews in Washington Heights tutoring Hispanics in English but maybe we… Continue reading Habla Español?
random manishtana fact no 78: i worked in a comic book and videogame store for eight years. and im a proud dc boy. superman. bats. flash. justice league. yknow. see, i never got the marvel universe. actually, more to the point, i never got the deal with how the marvel universe reacted to mutants. everyone… Continue reading Just when you thought it was safe to talk to your friends about…
I went to an Orthodox Jewish wedding in Los Angeles and a woman read the ketubah. Whoa. She did it better than I’d seen any other rabbi do it before (and I’ve been to a lot of Jewish weddings). But some people couldn’t handle it. Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky published an illuminating piece about those “some… Continue reading Are Orthodox Jewish women rebelling?
I’ve already picked out my baby names. No, the babies haven’t actually been conceived yet, it’s something my sisters and I have been doing since we were little kids. We used to go through our baby names book and pick out names for our imaginary children. There was even a period where my dolls were… Continue reading Baby Names
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