Over at Zinc Plate Press, I was asked this question and for a second, I didn’t have an answer until finally, it poured out of me. Usually, people are trying to find out what strengths from Judaism, I’m bringing to my Latino side, not the other way around. For the answer to this question, mosey… Continue reading What strengths from your Latino background have you brought to Judaism?
Does biracial Jew Rashida Jones have to deal with this crap? MixedJewGirl is making a career out of schooling the uneducated masses, especially when it comes to race relations. In “Cultural Etiquette: Don’t Ask ‘What are you?’”, she’s tackling how to deal with those “stupid questions” I get all the time as a Jew of… Continue reading Schooling the Uneducated Masses
And that’s all folks. It was six stand-up comedy classes for under a $100 at Santa Monica College. The teacher, Kevin Garbee, was awesome. And he coped well with my weird brand of Jewish Dominican humor. Here’s the last routine. Coming out to my family was difficult. Especially since I wasn’t telling them I was… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #6
So as it turns out, this show is NOT going on the road. While my stand-up comedy class classmates will be getting together to perform two Sundays from now, I will be at a big fat Jewish wedding. My body cannot handle ferrying from both. Besides, it’s only a mitzvah to do one of those… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #5: Shabbos is for Shtupping
The film “Arranged” is a New York story about two Brooklyn public school teachers. One teacher is an Orthodox Jewish young woman, Rochel and the other a devout Muslim, Nasira, who become friends in the midst of the period in their life when their well-meaning, but sometimes off-the-mark parents try to marry them off. At… Continue reading Friendship has no religion
Growing up, I ate pretty much the same thing every day without deviation: eggs (or eggplant) with mangu (mashed green plantains) for breakfast and/or lunch and chicken, rice, beans (my favorite were red but my husband loves then black) and plantains on the side (tostones or maduros). If my mother served anything else, I said… Continue reading Plantain Party
Only a couple of more classes left to my Stand-up Comedy class at Santa Monica College. My stand-up comedy teacher wants me to be more conversational and less theatrical when I deliver my bits. My husband said, “Is he asking you to be more white and less Dominican?” Aliza on Stupid Questions I am a… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #4
Check out the interviews with “From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African-American Journey to Judaism” author and African-American convert Ernest H. Adams and “Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider” author and convert Louis Ferrante. I just picked up Ferrante’s book and I’m hoping to read it soon. As for Ernest H. Adams, I’ve… Continue reading The Jewish Channel Features "Atypical Converts"
What is Israeli President Peres doing meeting with the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Lionel Fernandez? Well having a Jewminican conference, of course. Now, how come I wasn’t invited?
I’ll probably offend plenty of people with this one. I’m not even sure it’s funny. It’s definitely a work in progress. I don’t think I have it in me to be the Jewish Chris Rock. Maybe I’m just trying to get back at the classmate who made jokes about being a Columbian (he’s not) drug… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #3
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 