As we prepared for our son’s Bar Mitzvah last month, we began to get questions such as “What should I wear?” “What do I need to do?” Half of our family is not Jewish, and the half that is Jewish came from a Reformed tradition, but by geography and a Rabbi we liked, we ended…
DetailsThe first paragraph I will hopefully delete before publishing: I most often get writer’s block by triviality–Interculturalism has to do with anti-racism, and there is awful cr#@ happening in the world because of intolerance, and I can’t help but belie my position of privilege by writing about making Panettone Bread Pudding in the middle of…
DetailsI’m going to tell you three things and you tell me what’s the connection, but I’ll be “I” and I’ll be you”, deal? Two actors with Down Syndrome star in an adventure movie, and in one scene they get married then sneak away in the back of a truck making passionate love through the night. A…
DetailsI have been working on a blog post on the Trayvon Martin shooting at least since the verdict last July, and probably since the actual shooting in February 2012. And, you know what? I have accepted today that it will never happen. I have been accused of being too politically correct, and of having a…
DetailsI could not be more proud that my son can watch Aladdin and immediately realize that the underlying stereotype when only the villain speaks with a Middle Eastern accent. Or questioning the underlying bias of the positioning of modern African folk art as items of tribal ritual in an art museum. After all, we’ve been…
DetailsI adopted Thanksgiving probably 11 or 12 years ago, and really love planning, cooking (okay, my cousin brings the Turkey) and hosting the event. It’s a lot of work, but tightly planned, with the shopping, setting up, cooking, etc. spread out over a few days. So I’m talking to my mom on Sunday, and she…
DetailsI can’t tell you if this is a story about Really, have we met? Finding out something totally surprising about my husband of 25 years that I never knew Duh—how did I never see something so obvious when seen through the eyes of another? Or Deep, sensitive intercultural insight when seeing how USAmerican Culture is…
DetailsA couple of weeks ago I got home late from work and realized at 9:30 pm that I didn’t have the packing list to pack my son to leave on a school retreat at 8:30 the next morning. I called one of the other parents who’s always volunteering and on top of things, and said…
DetailsBelow are two stories, one about taking action for social change (like really taking action—not just liking something on Facebook) and the other story is about how media can perpetuate negative stereotypes (and how important it is to see something firsthand before passing judgment.) Both stories are interwoven here because 1.) The stories converge, albeit…
DetailsWouldn’t it be great if when someone asked a question that was naively, grossly, biased, that they just got a flick on the forehead, as in wake up! And, wouldn’t it be great if when it happened it was on a show for tweens, and you were watching it with your child, and have a…
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