One of the great sources of chizuk (strength) I have found in my life as a converted Orthodox Jew has been meeting other families where one or both partners are converts to Judaism. Sometimes they have a Jewish father, like I have, and sometimes they traveled the long and winding road to Judaism without the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘community’
Beyond conversion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, Judaism, society on April 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Granola
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, community, cooking on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a recipe. With the kids home, though, I’ve been thinking of things they can make with me that involve simple chopping, measuring, and mixing. I’ve also been teaching them that many of the things we tend to buy in stores ready-made can be made more wholesomely, deliciously, and [...]
Kids in shul
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children, community, Judaism, parenting on February 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Purim’s coming, and it will be one of the few times per year that I actually set foot in shul. I used to attend shul all the time. In fact, before the Cap’n and I were married, we used to walk a mile and a half and got to shul half an hour early to [...]
Litter rant
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, Israel, parenting on January 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
From the time I first set foot in Israel in 1996, I have been mesmerized by the beauty and history of this place. At the same time, however, I’ve been appalled at how people have chosen to maintain it. Coming to Israel is like going back in time in many ways, and unfortunately one of [...]
National identity
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, education, politics, society on December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ilana-Davita recently had a discussion on her blog of the recent controversy in France (sparked by Switzerland’s ban on minarets) over what constitutes national identity. This got me thinking about the dozens of discussions I’ve had on this subject, and inspired this post. (Thanks, Ilana-Davita!) I know the US has struggled with this for decades, [...]
Neighborhood noise
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, holiday, Judaism on October 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our neighborhood is not a quiet one. In addition to the Muslims blasting their prayers from nearby villages at all hours (including 4 AM), we have midnight territorial disputes between cats; several neighbors who play the drums (including one whose drum kit is in his room which faces my daughters’ room across the street); a [...]
Coping with sadness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, society on September 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Back in July, RivkA of Coffee and Chemo had one of the most insightful posts I’ve ever read. She said she used to think that there were people with complicated, difficult lives, and people with easy, smooth-going lives. Nowadays, she still believes that there are two types of people, but the two types are “1. [...]
Race and Judaism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, Judaism, society on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Either people are feeling their oats at the end of another academic year or the heat is getting to them. But it must be the season for brouhahas. There’s one that’s been brewing on the JewsByChoice.org forum. Someone writes about having attended a shul with Filipino friends (gerei tzedek) and when the Filipino man sat [...]
My Lag B’Omer post
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, holiday, Israel on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have written a post about the Crunch family’s Lag B’Omer experience this year. You can read it (and see the cake I baked for last Lag B’Omer) over at Frum From Rebirth.
Go, Dames!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community, entertainment on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I took the Crunch girls to a children’s matinee performance of “Dames of the Dance 2: The Pesach Story.” The Dames are made up of Gush Etzion’s women’s dance teachers and their students, and following their highly praised show of last year, they were back this year with a series of 17 dances around [...]
