Who’s Antonio?
Italian and Jewish? Why not! Antonio Sabato Jr. as a “Nice Jewish Boy”. As a teen, oh the posters I put up on my walls of this one. Sigh.
Category: culture/multiculturalism
It’s a boy!
Actors Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs are the new parents of a baby boy. And thus, another Jew of color is born. When’s the bris?
You know you’re Dominican when…
http://www.spike.com/efp La Chancleta (The Flip-Flop) | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com People tell you to stop screaming when you’re really talking. You grew up afraid of something called “El Cuco”. You clap your hands while laughing. You’re able to dance without any music. You learned how to dance merengue and bachata before you could walk.… Continue reading You know you’re Dominican when…
Life in Spanglish
My Spanish and Hebrew need work. Let’s table the Hebrew problem for a moment. To solve the Spanish problem, I’ve started reading in Spanish. But it’s so HARD!!! (Tears in my eyes.) My spoken Spanish is much better than my Spanish reading so I’m reading children’s books or (more fun) this blog, “Life in Spanglish”:… Continue reading Life in Spanglish
The Customs of Foreign Lands
In the Dominican Republic where the lights cut out when you least expect it, Dominicans like to yell “Se fue la luz!” In Sweden, Swedish fish don’t come in the signature red. In Canada, milk comes in a bag. No really, watch this video below.
Warming up for an article: The Latin Side of Interracial Dating
I’m supposed to have written an article on interracial dating for a Latino audience, like, weeks ago. But I don’t know where to start. This is coming from the girl whose mother had a white boy fetish. Whose father had a black girl fetish. Whose parents came together with their fetishes and made her. I… Continue reading Warming up for an article: The Latin Side of Interracial Dating
Belonging Everywhere?
Who is Adam McKinney and why does he care about “Belonging Everywhere?” Read on and learn more about what he’s been doing for the Jews in Ghana.
Straight Hair at Any Cost?
How I feel about “good hair” and “bad hair” is pretty much summed up in “Bagels & Locks” and the numerous previous posts on hair where I talk about the history of my own kinky hairstrands. And in “Every friend’s just a little bit racist”, I wrote: “They can tell me on the day that… Continue reading Straight Hair at Any Cost?
Jewish Diversity, where it’s at… (Part 2)
In “What’s Jewish Food?,” I wasn’t really complaining so much about bagels and lox as I was about “Ashkenazi-centrism” (seriously didn’t make this word up). Food was just the lens through which I chose to discuss a particularly aspect of Jewish diversity. Someone even told me to stop complaining and start writing a new Jewish… Continue reading Jewish Diversity, where it’s at… (Part 2)
Does someone who converts to Judaism really become “a Jew like any other”?
Kate Bailey is a self-described “young skeptical modern orthodox feminist convert” who writes deftly about conversion, hers as well as those of others. In her awesome piece in The Washington Jewish Week, “On Conversion”, she tackles many of the issues converts face in the Jewish community. Of the stories of converts, she writes: “The story… Continue reading Does someone who converts to Judaism really become “a Jew like any other”?
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 