Red Canna by Georgia O’Keeffe An article in today’s New York Times, In Europe, Debate Over Islam and Virginity, explores a debate over Islam and virginity that has broken out in Europe recently. In France, a Muslim man asked to have his marriage annulled when it came to light on his wedding night that his… Continue reading Getting my virginity back
In my work to try to get the word out on how the current conversion climate is affecting current and future converts everywhere, I’ve posted my editorial in The Jewish Planet on a more prominent Jewish blog for Jewish women.. Check out my Guest Post on the Jewess blog: A Jewess-by-Choice Reacts to the RCA’s… Continue reading A Jewess-by-Choice Reacts to the RCA’s New Conversion Standards
Yitz Jordan as photographed by Avital Aronowitz for my “Funny You Don’t Look Jewish” article in Presentense Magazine An article of mine, related to a previous blog on the current events related to Orthodox conversion to Judaism was published in a local paper, The Jewish Planet: “A Jew-by-choice reflects on the RCA’s new conversion standards”… Continue reading Reacting to the RCA and current climate surrounding Orthodox conversion
Photo: TheFlowerExpert.com April’s JCC Talk on Jews of Color was as explosive as it was packed! Jews of all colors and walks of live attended. There were two speakers, a Latin American Conservative rabbinical student and Jewish convert (of Jewish ancestery) and a half-Chinese, half-White secular Jewish woman, Jen Chau, who heads Swirl, “a national… Continue reading Reflections on JCC Talk on Jews of Color
In Jewish Week, Rabbis Marc Angel, left. and Avi Weiss. I’d only ever been to one protest before I met Rabbi Avi Weiss. Since then, I’ve been to many more and I’ve even sat at home waiting while my husband got arrested protesting the UN (as chronicled in Presentense magazine) with Rabbi Weiss. By the… Continue reading Branching Out
Me (and my hair in all its glory) in Israel circa 2006 And no, I’m not talking about the weather. The Orthodox Jewish world is being turned on its head as conversion becomes entangled in a larger power struggle between the ultra-Orthodox and the more modern rabbinical authorities. One of the latest articles on the… Continue reading Things are heating up
Judaism is an extreme sport as it is but then no one told me about how things can go haywire when you throw “family time” into the mix. With a holiday every other month, sometimes every other week, it seems that Jewish families, especially Orthodox ones, get thrown together much more often than I was… Continue reading Family Time
Hello, little blog. I am making you very sad by not writing as much as I’d like to write. I promise to write much more in the coming weeks. In fact, I owe you a good post on the JCC Manhattan talk I attended today, Jews of Color: Wrestling with the Angel of Identity, which… Continue reading Behind on the writing
I published yet another essay in Chabad’s The Jewish Woman magazine, The Wake-up Call. If you can believe it, this particular piece, which chronicles my battle with depression, is much more of a tell-all than the last piece I published on Chabad on conversion and race. You can find all my published work in the… Continue reading The Wake-up Call
http://www.mimisammis.comhttp://www.mimisammis.com/ Hey, people, despite the last post, I promise you, I had a fantastic set of seders. Stop apologizing.My favorite seder was the second because my non-Jewish little sister got to experience her first seder with my in-laws in Los Angeles. But the first seder was great fun thanks to my husband’s aunt and her… Continue reading Seder Confusion
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