I feel like Hanukkah finally arrived and I stopped talking about it altogether. I’m glad to hear that some of you are enjoying your books from the Happy Hanukkah book giveaway. It’s already the second day of Hanukkah and I find myself again without latkes. I might have to dip fried plantains into applesauce.
“Right of Reply: Secular conversion – an oxymoron” is my latest Op-Ed in The Jerusalem Post. Talk back here or talk back there, I’d love to hear your opinions.
“Oops, You’re Not Jewish” sounds like a great title for a book but really it’s an article in Hadassah Magazine by writer/blogger Gershom Gorenberg which focuses on the state of Jewish conversion. Here is a quick soundbite from the piece: “Susan Weiss—the founder and director of the CWJ and herself an observant Jew—has petitioned the… Continue reading Oops, You’re Not Jewish!
Hello, it’s me, the self-described worst guest in the world! And I’ve just had a long time friendship end over it. But this isn’t just the story of that loss or how I’ve come to expect the worst. As a recent convert, I’ve blogged before about how I’ve been inappropriate countless times at the Shabbos… Continue reading The Worst Guest in the World
As if the economic crisis weren’t enough? Washington Post writer Jim Hoagland tells it like it is about Bernie Madoff in “The Madoff Generation”. I’m getting all these end of the year requests from Jewish charities and I’m wishing that I could give at all. I’m sure that too many of us are finding ourselves… Continue reading MADOFF
(Check out the photo of me at my Communion ceremony. Who knew I’d be a Rebbetzin then?) Early on in the conversion process, a friend and I joked that we should marry rabbis. She was a baal teshuva, I was a convert and we sure that if we had rabbis for husband, we would have… Continue reading Rebbetzin Ruminations
Ever play “Jewish Geography” as a convert? It’s pretty painful. Though, honestly, pretty much everyone assumes I’m a convert or knows I’m a convert so I rarely get dragged into the game. But one night I attended a dinner where one woman insisted that I looked familiar. I told her I doubted it since she… Continue reading A Lesson on Jewish Geography
People Robin Williams makes fun of: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicolson, Latinos, Jews, Spice Girls, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Barack Obama, George Bush, Keith Richards and many more!
Teens with a group of professors and students from Yeshiva University and students from Alianza Dominicana to the “Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic” exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC’s Battery Park City. They boarded a bus from Washington Heights for the field trip. Redefining Community:Ari Hart Builds a… Continue reading A Very Rough Draft of an Interview with Ari Hart of Uri L’Tzedek
Very excited about being published in my “adoptive” hometown of Los Angeles. As some of you know, I spent my entire summer there writing and figure drawing/painting while my husband interned at a local synagogue. Plus, we spend all the major holidays out there with my in-laws. Anyway, do check out the reprint of “My… Continue reading Putting on a multicultural wedding
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 