The Choosing America Project is looking for true short stories that express the very essence of being an immigrant in America. We are interested in is eliciting gripping human interest short stories that will reflect the diversity of the American immigrant experience, past and present. The final goal of The Choosing America Project is to… Continue reading The Choosing America Project
Scrambling for movies to watch this summer, someone suggested “Adio Kerida”. The documentary, produced and directed by anthropologist Ruth Behar, is about the search for identity and memory among Sephardic Jews with roots in Cuba. Cuba as you know is just a hop, skip and a jump from my parents’ native Dominican Republic. Cuban food… Continue reading Adios Querida? No, Adio Kerida
http://www.hulu.com/embed/ecsrg_rGdP7psJkobtukZA by the letters S, A and P. (Get it?) Conan O’Brien is trying to embrace his Latino viewers out here in Los Angeles. Sure, there are stereotypes (sexy Latina) but it seems like Conan has been doing his telenovela (Spanish soap opera) homework!
Because some people’s lives are better than soap operas! I am absolutely obsessed with Philippa Gregory novels. My sister gave me a copy of “The Queen’s Fool,” about a Spanish Jewess escaping the Inquisition in Queen Mary I’s England, and then my mother-in-law lent me her copy of “The Other Boleyn Girl,” about those infamous… Continue reading Snorting Books
Hello, my name is Aliza and I am a Trekkie. No, I have never been to a “Star Trek” convention (though I’ve wanted to go). No, I haven’t watched every single episode of every incarnation in the series. But I can tell a Tribble from a tricorder, though Newsweek was correct to claim that the… Continue reading Getting Trekked Out
I know it’s shocking to some people that I can speak such good English. I mean, it’s not like it’s my first language or anything. It’s not like my parents, who both came to the States as children, were fluent in English or anything. I mean, really, it’s not like I read the classics for… Continue reading Spelling Circles Round Y’all
I have a confession: I have watched almost every Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie ever created. And no, I’m not going to apologize for it. Most of the films ranged from bad to awful, especially since I was in my early 20s when I was watching them and I wasn’t exactly the right audience for… Continue reading 17 Again?
My sister is in New York missing out on the Passover festivities. When I told her we would be going away for Passover, she asked where she was supposed to go for her seders. And no, my sister’s not Jewish. She called me up to tell me she’s watching Season 2 of Buffy the Vampire… Continue reading Did you hear the one about…?
Why can’t people tell the difference between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans? There need to be some more Dominican TV characters so people recognize. Meanwhile, have you seen this oldie but goodie clip from Scrubs? (Okay, confession: I’m at least 1/16 Puerto Rican.)
Having a job where I have no face-to-face human contact means that I tend to over-share when I do. So it’s no surprise that when I went to the allergist today, I quickly started chatting it up with the secretaries. That’s how I roll. “I’m going to be on TV on a Latino show!” I… Continue reading You have to choose!
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 