So as it turns out, this show is NOT going on the road. While my stand-up comedy class classmates will be getting together to perform two Sundays from now, I will be at a big fat Jewish wedding. My body cannot handle ferrying from both. Besides, it’s only a mitzvah to do one of those… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #5: Shabbos is for Shtupping
The film “Arranged” is a New York story about two Brooklyn public school teachers. One teacher is an Orthodox Jewish young woman, Rochel and the other a devout Muslim, Nasira, who become friends in the midst of the period in their life when their well-meaning, but sometimes off-the-mark parents try to marry them off. At… Continue reading Friendship has no religion
Yes, Ivanka Trump is Jewish, now please get over it. I mean, I’m all for Perez Hilton and the mass media wishing her a “Mazel tov” but I am sick of hearing about how you wish she’d cover her elbows, stop touching her fiance and well, in so many words wondering if she’s really Jewish.… Continue reading Conversion is not a joke (especially when it’s not funny)
Is there an art to Tweeting profoundly? (Tweeting is posting to Twitter. Twitter is microblogging at 140 characters or less.) Apparently, The Jewish Channel thinks I got it. For the second week in a row, I’ve made it onto the list of “Most Profound Tweets in Jewish History”. To check out last week’s: click here.
Only a couple of more classes left to my Stand-up Comedy class at Santa Monica College. My stand-up comedy teacher wants me to be more conversational and less theatrical when I deliver my bits. My husband said, “Is he asking you to be more white and less Dominican?” Aliza on Stupid Questions I am a… Continue reading Stand-up Comedy Routine #4
Check out the interviews with “From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African-American Journey to Judaism” author and African-American convert Ernest H. Adams and “Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider” author and convert Louis Ferrante. I just picked up Ferrante’s book and I’m hoping to read it soon. As for Ernest H. Adams, I’ve… Continue reading The Jewish Channel Features "Atypical Converts"
What if the United States government decided who is and isn’t Jewish. Now substitute the United States for that of Britain, the land of Harry Potter, because that’s what has people thinking about the “Who is a Jew” controversy in a whole new light ever since the son (now dubbed the “half-blood Jew”) of a… Continue reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Jew
According to Women’s Wear Daily, Ivanka Trump completed her conversion to Judaism and is now engaged to New York Observer owner Jared Kushner. Like, wow. Who knew that Ivanka Trump would become the poster girl for Orthodox conversion (as of six months ago online sources said she was studying with Rabbi Haskel Lookstein). Well, I,… Continue reading Ivanka Trump is 100% Kosher
What is Israeli President Peres doing meeting with the President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Lionel Fernandez? Well having a Jewminican conference, of course. Now, how come I wasn’t invited?
OMG!!! MAYIM BIALIK IS STARRING IN AN EPISODE OF JEW IN THE CITY!!!!! OMG!!! So how did Mayim Bialik end up on “Jew in the City” anyway? Read: “Mayim Bialik to Guest Star on a Very Special Jew in the City!” Of course, my husband has no idea who Mayim Bialik is. Sometimes, I can’t remember… Continue reading Are Orthodox Jews Sexist?
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 