I’ve got plenty to say about my trip to Europe. You’ll soon hear all about the mystifying, wide-eyed journey of a welfare child navigating Italy with a hodgepodge of broken Spanish and Italian. I made sure to take copious notes during my first and only trip to Europe ever and you will be subject to… Continue reading A Jewish Face
Memoirist and filmmaker Sadia Shepard Back from a week in Italy, my friends, more on that later. In the meantime, please check out my latest piece for Interfaithfamily.com. It’s a profile on Sadia Shepard and her memoir, “The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories and a Sense of Home”. I hope… Continue reading Three Religions, Three Cultures and A Search for Identity
Here’s an oldie but goodie, an old hair piece revised for mass consumption. I’m hoping it will be picked up by a women’s magazines. Don’t mind your prayers over it! Thanks! Kinky Love My mother taught me to hate my hair. She learned this from her mother, who learned it from her mother before her.… Continue reading Kinky Love: Breaking with Family Tradition and Embracing Curly Hair
I was posting on another blog when someone asked me: “So, if someone has been driving an American car (non-Jews) for a while and then switched to a Japanese one (Jews), why should he object to an American car (non-Jews) being called junk?” I’m not editorializing with the parenthetical statements, the preceding sentences were about… Continue reading Jewish Blogger Likens Non-Jews to Junk
“Conversion Crisis in Israel Boils with New Appointee”, a piece in The Forward, focuses on the conversion crisis in Israel but it highlights how the crisis has extended even further and how Modern Orthodox conversions have been affected.
You know you’re Jewish when you get caught completely unawares by endless Christmas Eve traffic. We sat in it for two hours mystified as we drove from Times Square back to Riverdale after lunching with some friends. We came home to a sad, empty little fridge but we thought we could sit the rain out… Continue reading Things You’ll Hear @ the Kosher Mart on Christmas Eve
Oh, wow, I feel…wow, overwhelmed. I just logged onto Gershom Gorenberg’s blog and discovered a post about little old me!!! Good timing, too, since I had just been struck by a bout of the blues. Check out: “Big Tent Judaism” and why Gorenberg thinks Jews should be reading my blog like a text book.
With “No More Illusions”, Jerusalem Post Op-Ed contributor, Reuven Hammer proposes a way to circumvent the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and still keep Jewish conversions kosher. But the comments on his piece highlight that the issues around conversion may never be so simple. I’m glad that some of the people commenting don’t have his address… Continue reading Another Way for Jewish Conversion in Israel
I’ve written about my hair before but never in such depth as Latoya Peterson’s “Nappily Ever After? Not quite” on the Racialicious blog. It’s a great post. All you straight-haired folks might learn something. I can’t tell you the amount of times that Jews make comments about my hair. Luckily, very, very few have been… Continue reading Racilious Talks "Nappy" Hair
http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.30 Hilly Gross at the 10th Anniversary of the LSS Beginners Service @ Yahoo! Video He has a very interesting perspective to share on the people that attend Beginners services at Lincoln Square synagogue. I think the same idea applies to all baalei teshuva and converts everywhere. Enjoy the jokes, they’re killer!
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