Wheew, I miss you guys. I hope you miss me! I have all these writing ideas rolling around in my head and no one to share them with. Not ready to make my comeback though but living life temporarily unplugged is interesting. Still doing a terrible job of juggling what I should be doing for… Continue reading Missing you!
A short video on growing up in Washington Heights: I love the Heights. With Dominican food, Dominican people and Dominican Spanish at every street corner, I can’t help but feel like I’m home when I come down from Riverdale to visit. I am, after all, a Dominican-American so why wouldn’t I feel most at home… Continue reading My nickname growing up was "white girl"
“This is a battle for the soul of Judaism,” writes David Harris about the Knesset bill “that attempts to bar any non-Jew who ever visited Israel from claiming Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, if they convert to Judaism subsequent to their visit.” To read more: click here: “A Welcome or a Wall?”
My husband’s tribute to my good hair day and the hair covering that was swallowed up by it. Most people are socially appropriate enough that they don’t or won’t comment on what’s going on with your hair unless it’s on fire. I think that’s pretty fair. I mean, if you’re having a bad hair day,… Continue reading The Hair Covering Adventures of Me and My Rastafarian Beret: An Afro-tastic Report
Event: Orthodox conversion documentary “Leap of Faith” in Washington, DC Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Time: 7:30pm Place: The Screening Room, Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center | 1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036 | (202) 518-9400 Trailer: http://www.leapoffaiththefilm.com/ Synopsis: The feature-length documentary, LEAP OF FAITH, is the first film to explore the… Continue reading Reminder: Cool Jewish Events: Orthodox conversion doc screening "Leap of Faith" in Washington, DC
Actor Hank Azaria was born to Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews parents. Wonder if his Ladino is as bad as my Spanish? Earlier this Winter/Spring, I almost signed up for a Ladino class at the JCC Manhattan (groovy new site!). My sister, though, stepped in and said that I did not have THAT kind of money to… Continue reading Lonely in Ladino
Event: Women-only Launch Party for Taliah Performing Arts CenterDate: Saturday, March 13, 2010Time: 8:30pmPlace: 303 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY For Immediate Release Taliah Performing Arts Center for Women Official Opening NightLaunch Party March 13th New York, March 8, 2010 – Taliah Performing Arts Center, a women’s-only studio for acting and dance located in Carroll Gardens,… Continue reading Cool Jewish Event: Women-only Launch Party for Taliah Performing Arts Center
The latest show I’ve added to my Hulu queue is “Parenthood” and when I caught that one of the actress’s names was Sarah Ramos, I decided to do some sleuthing. No surprise, with a name like Sarah Ramos that the actress is a Jewish Latina raised in Los Angeles! Freddie Prinze, Jr. plus Sarah Michelle… Continue reading Jewtina on Parenthood
Trailer: Event: Screening of “400 Miles to Freedom,” A Documentary Film About Jewish Identity by Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb MekonenDate: Thursday, March 18, 2010Time: 7pmPlace: Northeastern University, 135 Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street, Boston, MA Free and open to the public Co-sponsored by the Northeastern University Departments of African-American Studies, Art & Design,… Continue reading Cool Jewish Events: Screening of "400 Miles to Freedom," a documentary on Jewish identity
My hands (and heart) hurt too much to go into great detail over this latest conversion debacle which is why I haven’t blogged about it though I have mentioned it on my fan page. Lucky for me “Redefining Rebbetzin” put together a great blog about it. If you’ve been living under a nice little rock… Continue reading Redefining Rebbetzin says: "Save Conversion and Jewry as we know it"
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 