Erika Davis
By Erika Davis
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Food Trading Ham for Turkey this Rosh Hashanah
The power of food never ceases to amaze me. It has the power to not only provide nourishment for our bodies, but it can build bridges in the most seemingly unusual and unexpected ways. This Rosh Hashanah marks my second as a Jewish woman. I converted in August 2011, though I’d considered myself Jewish for…
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Life Why I Want Children
I smiled when I read the title of Chanel Dubofsky’s latest Sisterhood post, “Why I Don’t Want Children.” I met Chanel last year when we were both working for a local Jewish non-profit. We bonded over our love of great coffee, feminism and pugs. The one topic we did not bond over was motherhood. I’ve…
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Life No More Jewish N-Word
In March, I wrote a blog post about how I feel lucky for never having had the word nigger used towards me. In 2012, decades after the Civil Rights movement, the word is still on the lips of many and is often used as venom. It continues to conjure hatred, fear and pain, the same…
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Life Born in Prison
Growing up in a Jewish community in the suburbs of Seattle, Deborah Jiang Stein always knew that she was adopted. Her brown skin was nothing like the fair skin of her parents. And while they never tried to keep her adoption a secret, her parents were tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding it. One day she…
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Life Talking Honestly About Jews and Racism
A few week ago I had two very different experiences having to do with my necklace. At a party a friend of a friend asked about the Chai around my neck and then asserted that there weren’t any black Jews. On the ride home another person, a stranger, noticed the Chai and then pulled out…
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Life Sh— Jews Say to (Non-White) Jews
The “Shit Girls Say” videos, which The Sisterhood’s Elissa Strauss weighed in on here, have been an online phenomenon with spin-offs including “Shit Guys Say” and the most spot-on, “Shit White Girls Say to Black Girls. “ (Nuggets include: “Jews were slaves, too; you don’t hear us complaining about it all the time” and “you…
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Life Christmas as a Jew-to-Be
Today is Christmas. As someone who is in the process of converting to Judaism, — and blogging about it here — this is the first Christmas that I won’t be celebrating. Since just after Halloween — when the Christmas decorations started appearing all over stores, and when the Christmas music began playing everywhere from Duane…
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