by Intern | Jul 17, 2014 | Identity, Recipes
I have often joked that I am the only woman in America who doesn’t cook anything that she grew up eating. Now this is not a reflection on my mother’s cooking abilities, but rather a result of my marriage to a Moroccan Israeli with very different ideas of what...
by Intern | Jul 7, 2014 | Identity
“I’m Jewish& Black” “I’m Jewish& Environmental Activist/writer” “I’m Jewish& a Rabbinical Student” “I’m Jewish& part Chinese part Catholic” “I’m Jewish& Indian & a businessman” “I’m Jewish& Australian, Japanese and American.” “I’m...
by Intern | May 20, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise sometimes. I am a mother now. Up until 7 months ago when someone would ask me a defining attribute of myself, I would have said I’m a Ladino singer. That’s what...
by Intern | May 7, 2014 | Identity
I am remembering a Jewish Universal mother. This woman was small in stature yet grand in her effect. A mother of three boys, she was an extraordinarily beautiful, dark-skin Black Jewish woman who left the island of Jamaica in the late 1960s. She had only $5 in her...
by Intern | May 6, 2014 | Arts & Culture, Identity
So Katy Perry thinks she’s Sacha Baron Cohen, in possession of that subtle talent that turns offense into parody. Problem is, she is missing one very crucial element to her “shtick.” She’s not funny. A video circulating on the interwebs features Ms. Perry dressed up...
