Everyone knows what overt racism looks like. If they haven’t experienced it then it’s easy for them to imagine. We’ve all seen the awful photographs from the civil rights movement. But most people walk through life on a daily basis overlooking the more subtle forms of racism so that’s what my husband and I focused… Continue reading Recap on LimmudNY Session on Racism in the Jewish Community
If I was a real Dominican, I would know someone going to Santo Domingo this week and I would have them drop off the copies of the Twilight saga I purchased for my cousin. (My Jewish friends tell me people do the same thing with sending things to Israel.) But I’m very American and I… Continue reading Catching Up
Greetings from Ellenville, NY where the LimmudNY conference may or may not take place. We arrived Thursday evening to discover that the heat was broken at the hotel where the conference was to take place. I got to see most of a screening of “My Mexican Shivah” while we waited for rooms to be organized… Continue reading Brrrr!!!!
Pick up the current issue of Latina magazine and you’ll find a familiar face amidst the pages: mine. Check out page 84 of the February issue for my latest piece, “Not-So-Foreign Language” where I chronicle my battles to stay fluent in Spanish in the face of assimilation and cultural conflict. If you’re savvy, you might… Continue reading Aliza Hits Latina Magazine and more….
It’s not every day that you open the NY Times and find news about Dominicans so, of course, when I saw a link to “For Privacy’s Sake, Taking Risks to End Pregnancy”, I scrambled to open it. What I read when I opened the link and skimmed the article was really troubling. It was sad… Continue reading Dominican Women in Trouble
Here’s an oldie but goodie, an old hair piece revised for mass consumption. I’m hoping it will be picked up by a women’s magazines. Don’t mind your prayers over it! Thanks! Kinky Love My mother taught me to hate my hair. She learned this from her mother, who learned it from her mother before her.… Continue reading Kinky Love: Breaking with Family Tradition and Embracing Curly Hair
Check out one Spanish blogger’s interesting take on Bush ducking “zapatos” (Spanish for shoes). Then in case you missed the real thing, check out the clip on the BBC website. I was never a big fan of George but I thought he handled ducking shoes really well at the press conference. Talk about a culture… Continue reading Sorry I missed it
According to a post on Vivir Latino, a blog I just discovered, “a study released by the America Association of Retired People (AARP), at least 82% of Latinos 45 and older do.” The post says, “[The study] sort of plays to the stereotype of Latino’s faith as being more “folky” and less real and respectable.”… Continue reading Miracles, miracles, everywhere…
People Robin Williams makes fun of: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicolson, Latinos, Jews, Spice Girls, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, George Bush, Keith Richards and many more!
Teens with a group of professors and students from Yeshiva University and students from Alianza Dominicana to the “Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic” exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC’s Battery Park City. They boarded a bus from Washington Heights for the field trip. Redefining Community:Ari Hart Builds a… Continue reading A Very Rough Draft of an Interview with Ari Hart of Uri L’Tzedek
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 