In case you haven’t heard about it “Girl Meets God” is a book about a girl, Lauren F. Winner, who grows up in an interfaith family (Jewish father, Christian mother) and decides to convert to Orthodox Judaism. Then she goes and converts to Christianity. Sadia Shepard suggested I read it as part of my voyage… Continue reading Girl Meets God…Once…Twice…
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I rarely buy hardcover books by unknown authors. It’s only for the steady stream of authors I’ve come to love that I’m willing to fork over hardcover prices. But then my friend in Atlanta told me about “My Jesus Year.” She couldn’t put it down and she couldn’t stop laughing, she said. The author, Benyamin… Continue reading My Jesus Year
We’re in Los Angeles for my husband’s internship at a local synagogue. And as a perk, we get to spend time with the family. Yay, family? My mother-in-law reminded me of a little known family fact at the last Sukkot meal. Converts usually face a lot of obstacles in family harmony when they decide to… Continue reading It’s all in the family
Squeezing writing into Chol Hamoed Sukkot takes a kind of discipline that I apparently have not mastered. I’m squirreling away at trying to come up for a title for my book. And no, it’s not finished. But the publisher wants a title. Between my catchy ones and his “textbook” ones, we have yet to find… Continue reading Getting religious
From Rav Binny Freedman of Isralight on Parshas Balak: “The concept of being ‘chosen’ as a people does not mean we are better than anyone else. What it means is that we, (like any other nation) have our own special gifts and therefore our own special purpose. And this different (and not better) relationship with… Continue reading Am I more special than you?
I didn’t grow up hearing many stereotypes about Jews, I just knew that we (Dominicans) didn’t like them. The focus was more on the fact that Jews didn’t believe in Jesus and therefore, wouldn’t be saved. No Jesus, no free pass to heaven. At least, that was more of the focus than say the stereotype… Continue reading When Dominicans Haggle…
Stuff like this only happens to me, right? Hubbie and I just got back from the LimmudLA conference (“celebrating the kaleidoscope of Jewish life”) in Costa Mesa, CA. We had an awesome time (will post about it later). Meanwhile, when we got off the plane at 1am in the morning, a Spanish-speaking cleaning lady at… Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar
As an almost Jew, one of the ways I find that I am lacking enormous amounts of information is when I run into the most traditional, Orthodox, well-versed, whatever you want to call it, Jews. These are the Jews who are superbly observant and do not think twice. They can summon together an eloquent dvar… Continue reading Reverse Anti-Semitism?
or Jesus Christ Superstar. Nuff said.
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