The 5th Commandment
Jewish girl randomly meets rabbi and her life changes forever. Please check out Sarah Shapiro’s “All The Way Home”. It puts a positive spin on the difficulties and joys of honoring parents and becoming an observant Jew.
Category: Jews/Jewish/Judaism/Orthodox Judaism
Curiosity and Racism are the Same Thing?
Adam McKinney, left, and Daniel Banks bring their program on Jewish identity to Temple Beth-El in Great Neck. Their presentation, “Belonging Everywhere,” includes a film they made about a Jewish community in Ghana. Courtesy of American Jewish Committee. Jewish Week article, Pressing for a ‘Global’ View of Jewry” interviews two local artists, both Jews from… Continue reading Curiosity and Racism are the Same Thing?
Blood is life
My mother-in-law commented during a recent Barnes & Nobles shopping spree together that I am perhaps a little too attached to vampires. This is probably because I wanted to sob over the fact that I would not let myself purchase Breaking Dawn, the last in Stephanie Meyer’s the teen vampire romance saga Twlight, and Undead… Continue reading Blood is life
Jews of Color: A Minority within a Minority
Check out this article, Minority within a Minority, from Aish that focuses on Jewish of Color and their unique challenges. It is a reprint from The Jewish Press. The article focuses primarily on Jews of Color who are African-American, arguably I presume because they are the most “visible” minority within a minority and because the… Continue reading Jews of Color: A Minority within a Minority
Converts on the True Colors of the Jewish Community
Interfaithfamily.com just reprinted an article of mine from PresenTense Magazine. Check out: Converts on the True Colors of the Jewish Community. “Do Jews who negatively react to my skin color forget that they were once slaves in Egypt and strangers in another land?” Rapper Y-Love (aka Yitzchak Jordan) was interviewed for the piece.
Coming Out
From signnetwork.com. I’m having a hard time relating to this article, When Converting Telling Your Family Might Be The Hardest Part. Oh, right, maybe that’s because when I told my father, he laughed.
A Nation Divided: Coping with Racism in the Jewish Community
Here is my latest piece for Interfaithfamily.com. I’m posting it before it’s published on the web and will eventually replace this text with a link to the website: A Nation Divided: Coping with Racism in the Jewish Community “So where you from?” they ask. “New York,” I say. “No, really. Where you from?” “New York!”… Continue reading A Nation Divided: Coping with Racism in the Jewish Community
Crying on Tisha B’Av
My first Tisha B’Av was spent at the OU in Jerusalem. The best part of this might shock you, but it was definitely that there were plenty of people there that were twice or three times my age at services. When it came time for Eichah to be read, I sat in a chair with… Continue reading Crying on Tisha B’Av
Jews come in all shapes, colors and sizes
I just picked up In Every Tongue: The Racial & Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People by Diane Tobin, Gary A. Tobin & Scott Rubin. Currently, I’m reading the chapter called “Feet in Many Rivers: Navigating Multiple Identities.” There were many other interesting chapters I could have started with but this one drew me in… Continue reading Jews come in all shapes, colors and sizes
Loss & The Three Weeks
Someone gave me the heads up about ButYouDontLookSick.com recently and I wanted to link a good post I found there “The Pain of Disease and the Triumph of Togetherness”: An excerpt: “There’s a pain that can be worse than any physical disease. It’s the loneliness you feel when you see your friends go out and… Continue reading Loss & The Three Weeks
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 