Note: Video displays some male nudity (a clip from “The DaVinci Code”). Your call if you want to watch, otherwise, just read the little bit below. MaNistana’s latest video is based on…well, read on. Orthodox Jewish Sex Ed.: Now, what I heard from a friend who heard it from a friend of a friend of… Continue reading The all too INFAMOUS Hole in the Sheet
Event: “Off and Running” Movie ScreeningDate: Sunday, January 31, 2010Time: 4:15pmPlace: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue., @ West Third St., New York, NYNote: The film is also has showings from Friday, January 28, 2010-Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Special Screening co-hosted by Be’chol Lashon, Jewish Multiracial Network, Brooklyn Jews and UJA Women’s Group, with Q&A moderated… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Off and Running Movie Screening
Can I tell you a secret? “Sure,” I say. Was that TMI? (TMI=Too much information) “I’m a Rebbetzin (almost). There’s no such thing as TMI with the Rebbetzin,” I say. Then I get quiet for a second and I add, “Plus I’m Dominican, what’s TMI?”
If it wasn’t for my non-observant Russian Jewish friend becoming Orthodox and inadvertently inspiring me while he was trying to explain why he’d done it (because no one in his secular life understood why), I might not be here today. Quite literally, a ba’al teshuva is a convert’s friend. In fact, it was another ba’al… Continue reading A Convert’s Best Friend
An improvised joke I made at a recent speaking engagement…. I spent the first 26 years being told “funny, you don’t look Dominican” and I’ll spend the next 36 being told “funny, you don’t look Jewish.” Since I am Dominican and Jewish, clearly I look nothing but puro Jewminicana. What do I have to get… Continue reading You don’t look…
Event: Second Annual Reelabilities NY Disabilities Film Festival presented by the JCC Manhattan Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010-Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Time & Place: Multiple locations and times throughout New York City Admission: Festival pass is $40
Whoa. Six more months until my husband becomes a rabbi and I need to take off those training wheels (from my new Rebbetzin-in-training wheels title). I don’t know how much or in what capacity I will be able to help out at my husband’s shul but I know that I would love to make synagogue… Continue reading "Do You" and Stuff-Part 2
I know, I know, I still have to tell you how much I loved Limmud! But for a second, I have to rave about all the wonderful Jewish learning experiences I’ve had lately in Riverdale. I love classes. What I miss most about my time on the Upper East Side was the amazing wealth of… Continue reading "Do You" and Stuff-Part 1
Only if you’re living under a rock have you missed the news that a plane was diverted because a flight attendant mistook a White Plains Jewish teen putting on tefillin for a terrorist. Yes, they thought it was a (tefillin) bomb. No, this is not part of my stand-up routine but it will be. Read:… Continue reading It’s a TEFILLIN BOMB!
Event: Friday Night Moroccan Dinner (Half of the proceeds will go to the Haiti relief fund!) Date: Friday, February 5th, 2009 Time: 6:15pm-8:15pm Place: Kingsbridge Center of Israel, 3115 Corlear Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463 Admission: $18 per adult $30 per couple $5 per child Pay on website or by check (Put “Friday night dinner” in… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Friday Night Moroccan Dinner/Proceeds to Haiti
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 