Almost 16 years ago (it could actually be 17, math is not my strong suit) I started a blog called Holycrapimgonnabe40.blogspot.com. It began because my posts on Facebook had some people asking me to start a blog. So I did. It didn’t make me famous, which I thought it would, but a girl can dream, right? Anyway, after the blog, I started writing a column for a paper that led me to write for the Jewish Standard almost 10 years ago. And, as I have mentioned before, as a middle...Continue Reading
Think of Ladino as a kind of unmelting snowball, rolling from country to country, picking up more words, more quirks, more resilience — more color — as it goes. Often it rests, then it takes off again. Ladino, the language of Sephardi Jews, began in Spain, with the...Continue Reading
To walk into 81 Leonard Gallery in lower Manhattan is to be overwhelmed by the color. Huge pieces of art, with enormous expanses of bright color. It’s not intimidating, it’s not off-putting, and most certainly it is not saccharine. It’s immersive. It’s encompassing. It makes you want to...Continue Reading
