Ynetnews.com notes a drop in the number of people converting to Judaism from other religions in Israel. Gee, could that be because they’ve made it so hard in Israel for people to convert? I’m sure the numbers will drop in America as well.
I rarely buy hardcover books by unknown authors. It’s only for the steady stream of authors I’ve come to love that I’m willing to fork over hardcover prices. But then my friend in Atlanta told me about “My Jesus Year.” She couldn’t put it down and she couldn’t stop laughing, she said. The author, Benyamin… Continue reading My Jesus Year
Squeezing writing into Chol Hamoed Sukkot takes a kind of discipline that I apparently have not mastered. I’m squirreling away at trying to come up for a title for my book. And no, it’s not finished. But the publisher wants a title. Between my catchy ones and his “textbook” ones, we have yet to find… Continue reading Getting religious
A recent article in the NY Times sickens me. In “French Muslims Find Haven in Catholic Schools,” Muslim students have decided to forgo public school for Catholic schools after the 2004 ban on head scarves in public schools. I’m guessing that freedom of religion there isn’t one of the rights we enjoy so casually here.… Continue reading Catholic Schools are a Head Scarf’s Haven
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 