Last week, the local paper, The Riverdale Press contacted me for an interview. Somehow, they had stumbled upon my blog. During the really-early-in-the-morning interview, I hoped that I wouldn’t embarrass myself too much. Mostly, I didn’t. Check out: “Blogger chronicles her Catholic past, Jewish present”
Dealing with folks who are unable to discuss Obama without resorting to the n-word, much less calling him “Muslim” (like it’s a dirty word) is, well, rather tiresome. Because if you’re going to criticize Obama, you got to do it right. And that’s exactly what Aluf Benn does in “Why Won’t Obama Talk to Israel?”
The ways people hurt each other never cease to amaze me. I got up early this morning because I lost a lot of sleep over an email from a young woman, the offspring of a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father, who has had too many hurtful encounters with Jews. In spite of it, she… Continue reading Waking up to Hate in the Morning
“Ethiopians at the gate” (Haaretz) Why is Israel suddenly resuming immigration from Ethiopia? “Jewish school requirements ‘racist,’ British court rules” (Jewish Tribune) Did Britain decide that Judaism is racist? “Who is a convert?” (The Forward) Why Ruth is pretty lucky she’s not converting in 2009…. “New Conversion Legislation” (Ynet) A step forward or a step… Continue reading Conversion News Roundup
Did you hear the one about the black Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested for trying to break into his own home? No, this is not the beginning of a joke. All over the country people were crying racism and President Barack Obama responded to the whole thing by saying the police… Continue reading From Harvard to Handcuffs
Yes, Ivanka Trump is Jewish, now please get over it. I mean, I’m all for Perez Hilton and the mass media wishing her a “Mazel tov” but I am sick of hearing about how you wish she’d cover her elbows, stop touching her fiance and well, in so many words wondering if she’s really Jewish.… Continue reading Conversion is not a joke (especially when it’s not funny)
Is there an art to Tweeting profoundly? (Tweeting is posting to Twitter. Twitter is microblogging at 140 characters or less.) Apparently, The Jewish Channel thinks I got it. For the second week in a row, I’ve made it onto the list of “Most Profound Tweets in Jewish History”. To check out last week’s: click here.
On the July 8, 2009 episode of the morning show “Fox and Friends,” co-anchor Brian Kilmeade lost his marbles when discussing a study on marriage and Alzheimer’s that was conducted in Sweden and Finland. Mr. Kilmeade stated: “we [Americans] keep marrying other species and other ethnics . . . Swedes have pure genes . .… Continue reading Idiot on Interracial Dating/Marriage
Check out the interviews with “From Ghetto to Ghetto: An African-American Journey to Judaism” author and African-American convert Ernest H. Adams and “Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider” author and convert Louis Ferrante. I just picked up Ferrante’s book and I’m hoping to read it soon. As for Ernest H. Adams, I’ve… Continue reading The Jewish Channel Features "Atypical Converts"
What if the United States government decided who is and isn’t Jewish. Now substitute the United States for that of Britain, the land of Harry Potter, because that’s what has people thinking about the “Who is a Jew” controversy in a whole new light ever since the son (now dubbed the “half-blood Jew”) of a… Continue reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Jew
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