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True Confessions of a JDate Addict

Hi! My screen name is AMY (member no. XXXXXX) and I am a 32-year-old female and I am from VENICE, California, UNITED STATES.

When Jewish Is Too Jewish

I was in Washington, D.C., this week and had a meeting with a senior officer of the World Bank, who is from Bombay. As we ate our dinner, the conversation turned to ethnicity.

Aliyah Perspectives

From Los Angeles, Israel is 20 hours away by plane and 10 hours ahead on the clock; it\’s also a world apart.

Shuk Shopping

Elbows out. That was the lesson that began my initiation into the ways of Valley Produce market in Reseda.

True Tales From the Holocaust and After

Until recently, the word Drohobycz (pronounced "Dro-ho-bit-ch") sounded to most American readers like an exotic Eastern European tongue twister.

On The Road

Here\’s what you miss when you go on an organized mission to Israel: You miss the closed-top market in Rosh Ayin, where sellers out-shout
each other over megaphones, "Underwear, girls\’ underwear, three for 10 shekels."

Failing Minds Fall Prey to Holocaust

"Why did you come? Go, go before it\’s too late," Laja Szydlowski warned her daughter, Hanna. She then whispered, "They\’re killing people here. You don\’t understand."

Baklava and Bombs

Sami Michael, an Iraqi-born novelist who writes about the clash of Arab and Jewish cultures, knows what it\’s like to be a part of a beleaguered minority.

Remember the Good

Judaism\’s moral imagination describes that King Ahashuerus was not able to sleep because of all that was going on around him: Esther was involved with planning and preparing her next feast; Haman was busy building gallows; Mordecai was upset, praying and wearing sackcloth.

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