http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Obviously, I am biased on this issue. I have a debiliating chronic illness. I pay out-of-pocket for health insurance (and by, “I pay,” I mean I am lucky enough to have others paying it for me because I am not able to afford it myself). I’ve even… Continue reading Protect Health Insurance Companies!
Watch the trailer for Lacey Schwartz’s identity documentary, “Outside The Box”… …and help support it at this upcoming Benefit event in New York! For more details, check out: Outsidetheboxproject.com
So, now on top of all the Jewish reading I’m doing (or not doing), I’m reading Moment Magazine. Yeah, yeah, I should be reading Torah but check out this interview with cartoonist Robert Mankoff telling us all why Jewish humor is unique.
I think Sukkot is my favorite Jewish holiday. I just can’t pin down why. But it’s no secret that it’s referred to as “the time of joy.” And every Sukkot, I definitely feel that. Okay, so Sukkot’s nowhere near as stressful as Passover where the seder lasts until 3am and you’ve got to get a… Continue reading Sukkot is here! Hooray!
Most of the men I’ve dated, even before beginning and finishing the conversion process, were either Hispanic or…Jewish. At 13, when I first decided to convert, I didn’t know any Jews except for the Holocaust survivor who had come to speak at our school. By 25 when I formally started the conversion process, I’d dated… Continue reading Non-Jew Seeking Jewish Spouse
Sometimes you burn your bridges. Sometimes you BLOW THEM up. I aspire to be the kind of person who doesn’t burn or blow up (metaphorical) bridges but given what my sister calls my “anger management problem,” I can’t seem to refrain from doing either. (My husband adds, “you curse like a sailor.” And I don’t… Continue reading I’m a genie in a bottle, you better not rub me the wrong way…
These comments on my guest post on the Frum Satire blog, “Living Life from Under My Jewfro”, caught my eye and I wanted to share them with you: (They have been slightly edited.) Funny story #1: “Hahahah, I get the Jesus question all the time!!! I recently had a [conversation] with an Asian Christian friend… Continue reading Jesus Who?
It is with deep sadness that I announce that Shari Gershan, who was featured in a past post, “Having the Time of My Life” passed away this Yom Kippur. She had four children…now four motherless children. This is when it is hardest to understand G-d. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2560852&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Time of My Life from Tsvika on Vimeo.
A rabbi once told me that talking about intermarriage from the pulpit was a pretty bad idea all around. Too many rabbis have done it and assumed that the audience is homogeneous, a group of Jews that does not include converts, Jewish children of interfaith couples, Jewish children with non-Jewish and intermarried relatives and even… Continue reading Talking about Assimilation
I hate to the bearer of bad news but from now on, I’ll be a little quieter on Saturdays and Sundays. Don’t expect any blogs on the weekends! Don’t hate me because I like to able to use my hands! (Every post cripples me a little bit more.) But do expect to see more than… Continue reading Saturday (night) is for…sleeping. So is Sunday.
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