My great-grandmother recently celebrated her 96th birthday. My grandmother just started collecting social security. So as you can imagine, there has been a pretty good run of good health in my family. No history of cancer. No history of Alzheimer’s. Just a bad case of high cholesterol and high blood pressure. My husband, however, has… Continue reading Hispanics at Risk
“Honest Response” is a great response that touches upon the tone of a Jewish Week piece, “Pressing for a ‘Global’ View of Jewry,” which I previously posted on the blog. The original piece wondered whether the anger the two multiculutural Jewish artists were exhibiting in the dialogues they led on Jewish identity would cause people… Continue reading Anger is a valid response to racism
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?
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
Senator Barack Obama accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in front of 80,000 people Thursday night at Invesco Field in Denver. (Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times) I’ve never been one for politics. So, it’s no secret then that while my husband was watching Barack Obama speak at the Democratic National Convention on… Continue reading What’s more historic?
Hello, little blog, I have clawed my way through hours of writing for my book, for homework (for my online classes at Gotham Writer’s Workshop) and in response to emails from readers and I have found my way back to you. My trip to Los Angeles is almost over. I’m multitasking by packing and writing.… Continue reading Wrapping up
I like to tell myself that I’m the healthiest sick person I know. Thanks to a pain management program that demands 30-minutes of daily heart stimulating exercise, I get more exercise than most of my much skinner friends. Despite this, according to my BMI (calculated online), I’m overweight for my height. And I’m not getting… Continue reading Better to Be Fat and Fit Than Skinny and Unfit
I get the NY Times the only way I can afford it…for free, online. I receive emails hounding me with news alerts, headlines, book and film reviews on a daily basis. I do an utterly horrid job of keeping up. Today I was surprised, given that I wrote a previous post about being “raised by… Continue reading Raised by Wolves?
Newsworthy Item from Consumerist.com: Delta Makes Woman With Muscular Dystrophy Crawl Off Plane Traveling is difficult when you’re disabled and according to the article above, Delta made it much, much worst for one handicapped passenger. Though my travel experiences have been nowhere near as arduous, my first and only flight to Israel was so upsetting… Continue reading The not so friendly skies
Monica Almeida/The New York Times The Pacific Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue, on the colorful Venice Beach boardwalk. One of my favorite places in California is the synagogue on Venice Beach. I’ve only been inside once but it strikes me as truly awesome that there’s an Orthodox synagogue in the middle of the chaos and… Continue reading Davening @ Venice Beach
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 