According to some people being Jewish now means that I’m no longer Hispanic (I’ve gotten this one from Jews and non-Jewish Latinos alike) and according to some people being Hispanic means I can never really be Jewish (I’ve gotten this one mostly from Jews). Some people surveying my situation have noted that as a Jewminicana,… Continue reading Black Just Like Them
So a bunch of us women folk are sitting around discussing the drama that is female body hair. The summer never ends in Los Angeles so even on Labor Day, we’re talking waxing, bleaching and laser removal. Fun times. Tomorrow, we’ll move onto Jewish guilt and cooking for an army and still feeling we haven’t… Continue reading Would you like some bleach?
Akira Ohiso with his son Simcha at the Jewish Multiracial Retreat 2009 Even out here in my new home in “La-la land” aka Los Angeles…where there is about as much Jewish diversity as you’d find in Israel with Jews of all kinds of color and from all over the world…I still can’t get away from… Continue reading We’re As Jewish As It Gets
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times It is sad that Yoseph Robinson had to die so tragically (his killer is now in custody) before the world (according to the NY Times) would take notice of Jews of color. Yes, duh, there are black (Orthodox) Jews. There’s actually a heck of a lot of them!… Continue reading Yeah, where you been?
Yoseph is survived by his parents; his children, Chelsea, Chae, Cordell and Chana and his girlfriend Lahava Shneor and a multitude of friends who will miss him dearly. Please watch this fascinating video and more from Yoseph Robinson’s YouTube page: Blogger MaNishtana will be collecting funds this week in order to donate Yom Kippur machzors… Continue reading Yoseph Robinson Fund
Yoseph Robinson, a 35-year-old Jamaican former hip-hop record exec who converted to Orthodox Judaism, was killed last night during a robbery at the Flatbush kosher-wine store where he worked, police and witnesses said. Readmore: “Brooklyn liquor-store slaying” Yoseph, we kept saying we were going to meet to discuss your memoir but we never did get… Continue reading Baruch Dayan Emet
I’d heard this story before and even posted a You Tube video, which put me in tears, of watching the descendants of Kaifeng Jews arrive for the first time in Israel. But what all the previous stories seemed to forget, this new story in The Forward, “Israel’s Keenest Yeshiva Students Catching Up With China’s Kaifeng… Continue reading New Yeshiva Bochurs on the Block: From Kaifeng, China to Yeshiva in Israel!
Blogger MaNishtana is getting serious and asking people to sign a petition to help a black Haitian Jewish convert who has been treatly unjustly by child services both Jewish and non-Jewish and has lost custody of her son (“Let’s Sign This and Get Something Done”) it would seem because of her conversion to Judaism. A… Continue reading Black Haitian Jewish Convert Loses Custody of Child After Conversion
On Shabbos, someone tried to sing “Happy Birthday” and someone else switched to the Hebrew version and last but not least, the Spanish version: Feliz Cumpleaños! But none of those were right. Where were my great-grandmother Abuela and my grandmother who I still call Mami there to sing this for me? Here is the song… Continue reading Back by popular demand
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 