Here’s an oldie but goodie, an old hair piece revised for mass consumption. I’m hoping it will be picked up by a women’s magazines. Don’t mind your prayers over it! Thanks! Kinky Love My mother taught me to hate my hair. She learned this from her mother, who learned it from her mother before her.… Continue reading Kinky Love: Breaking with Family Tradition and Embracing Curly Hair
http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.30 Hilly Gross at the 10th Anniversary of the LSS Beginners Service @ Yahoo! Video He has a very interesting perspective to share on the people that attend Beginners services at Lincoln Square synagogue. I think the same idea applies to all baalei teshuva and converts everywhere. Enjoy the jokes, they’re killer!
(Check out the photo of me at my Communion ceremony. Who knew I’d be a Rebbetzin then?) Early on in the conversion process, a friend and I joked that we should marry rabbis. She was a baal teshuva, I was a convert and we sure that if we had rabbis for husband, we would have… Continue reading Rebbetzin Ruminations
Teens with a group of professors and students from Yeshiva University and students from Alianza Dominicana to the “Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic” exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC’s Battery Park City. They boarded a bus from Washington Heights for the field trip. Redefining Community:Ari Hart Builds a… Continue reading A Very Rough Draft of an Interview with Ari Hart of Uri L’Tzedek
In case you haven’t heard about it “Girl Meets God” is a book about a girl, Lauren F. Winner, who grows up in an interfaith family (Jewish father, Christian mother) and decides to convert to Orthodox Judaism. Then she goes and converts to Christianity. Sadia Shepard suggested I read it as part of my voyage… Continue reading Girl Meets God…Once…Twice…
Someone posted that they’re having trouble coordinating learning with an Orthodox rabbi. That’s no surprise to me. I think the only reason my rabbi is so available when I need him is that he doesn’t sleep. Ever. It also helps that I was not entirely dependent on him for all my learning. During my conversion… Continue reading Learn, Learn, Learn
Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and Rivkah Holtzberg What does one say about these sorts of things? I’ve never been particularly articulate at moments like these. Before Shabbos, most Jews around the world were praying for the rabbi and his wife in Mumbai. And then, we were stunned by news that this very young couple had… Continue reading Final word on Mumbai
I woke up today worried that the most terrible thing I would have to deal with was overeating. Instead, over a bowl of Cheerios, my eyes still fuzzy with sleep, my husband informed me that a Chabad house in Mumbai had been taken hostage. UPDATE: Jewish Child Safe in Hostage Crisis at Mumbai Chabad House… Continue reading Attack in Mumbai
Rabbi Capers Funnye Michelle Obama’s cousin, Rabbi Capers Funnye was profiled by the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles in a piece called “Obama’s cousin-in-law Rabbi Capers Funnye battles to open the gates of Judaism”. Funnye himself has had several conversions to Judaism and he speaks of schooling prospective converts to Judaism on the faith. “I… Continue reading Obama’s Cousin-in-law talks Judaism
Ania Bukstein in “The Secrets.” “The Secrets” is an Israeli movie about an Orthodox rabbi’s daughter who wants to become a rabbi in her own right. The film threatens to push the cultural envelope. Watch the trailer here.
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