Lady Gaga is partnering with Robin Hood, New York City’s largest poverty fighting organization, to give away $1 million. 100% of the money will help teens living in poverty. One organization, Lawyers for Children, that is very dear to my heart is in the running. So far, they have only 7% of the votes. The… Continue reading Vote for Lawyer’s for Children! They saved my sister’s life!
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…
As if the economic crisis weren’t enough? Washington Post writer Jim Hoagland tells it like it is about Bernie Madoff in “The Madoff Generation”. I’m getting all these end of the year requests from Jewish charities and I’m wishing that I could give at all. I’m sure that too many of us are finding ourselves… Continue reading MADOFF
Ug, I was reading through the section of my New York magazine that lists all the charities that are now going underfunded. Boy, was it depressing. It reminded me that a fellow blogger asked me to blog about a family in need. Unlike those lists of charities, this adds a face to the name. Check… Continue reading Charity
I recently received an email of a Jewschool post: It’s Our Turn to Help Hundreds of undocumented immigrants suffering under Agriprocessors’s labor practices were detained after a raid at Agriprocessors (Rubashkin’s) in Postville, Iowa. Many of their families have turned to the local Catholic church listed below for food and shelter. I found some local… Continue reading Workers Need Your Help!
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 