You’d be surprised how some conversations in Jewish circles start for Jews of color. Often, they don’t start with “Hi, what’s your name?” Instead, they start with “Hey, are you a convert?” even before the other person has introduced themselves. Usually, this question has substituted, “Hi! Hello! How are you?” The curiosity of the person… Continue reading A Video Response to "Where you from?"
In the above Def Jam Poetry clip, Shihan uses poetry to protest everything he’s “Sick & Tired” about and boy, do watch out for that R-rated language! Event: Poetry as Protest II: Writing JusticeDate: Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 (Please note correction to date)Place: Drisha Institute, 37 W. 65th, 5th floor, New York, NYTime: 7-9pmSuggested Donation:… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Poetry as Protest II: Writing Justice
Dear Aliza, While I would not call myself a “fan” of yours, since I disagree with much of what you write (and am also a follower of Fox News, and like Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, etc.) I do read your [blog posts], and felt I had to share with you something that happened yesterday, since… Continue reading A letter from a not-so-fan fan
“As they say, ‘third time’s a charm” (Jerusalem Post) 11-4-2009 In Circumcise Me (the film and now an off-Broadway show), Catholic-born comedian, Yisrael Campbell, recounts his journey from Christianity to Orthodox Judaism – a spiritual transformation and physical ordeal that involved not one, not two, but yes, three symbolic circumcisions. Don’t miss his off-Broadway show,… Continue reading Long Overdue Conversion in the News Roundup
Sorry this is late, my inbox is overflowing with goodies for the blog but this cold weather has my joints quaking. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2442568&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Parshat Vayishlach from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at http://www.g-dcast.com Please read this lovely drasha (speech) that YCT rabbinical student Zach Truboff gave at Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ. It has so much to… Continue reading Parshat Vayishlach
Event: Hanukkah Party for Jewish multiracial families and their friendsDate: Saturday, December 12, 2009Time: 3-5 p.m.Place: Temple Hillel B’nai Torah, 120 Corey Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132
Event: Screening of “In Search of the Bene Israel“Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009Place: Washington Jewish Film Festival, Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, 1529 16th Street NW, Washington, DC Time: 6:15pm USA/India, 2008, video, documentary38 minutesEnglish and Hindu with English subtitlesDirector: Sadia Shepard, author of “The Girl from Foreign: A search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: In Search of the Bene Israel
The only good thing (well, one of) that came out of a furious back and forth dialogue regarding a post of mine that made it over to the Frum Satire blog: “Sighting the Black Jew” was this story: My (Afro-Chinese) wife recounts something that happened to her on the bus a while back. A young… Continue reading On Breaking Bad Habits
My husband teaches a class Thursday nights at a synagogue downtown. And because I hadn’t seen so much of him that week, I decided to join him. We stopped to pick up some food at the place he always gets dinner at and I waited for our order while my husband ran to start his… Continue reading Just give me my freakin’ kibbeh (quipe)
THAT’S IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This Shabbos: I was minding my own business at the synagogue meal introducing myself to a new friendly face I had never seen before when a lady who has seen me at shul quite often before came over and interrupted our conversation to ask…if I’d been born Jewish. I was seething. I spat… Continue reading One more stupid comment, one more stupid question and I’m slapping someone!
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 