Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
The Jewish love affair with Latin music and ‘Nueva Yol’ dates back to mambo dancing in the Catskills and stories of a shared diaspora
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Culture Growing Up Latina and Jewish, I Was A Contradiction
Jewish AND Latina? When I was in junior high school in Newton, Massachusetts, a middle class suburb of Boston with a large Jewish population, my friends could not believe that I, a blonde blue-eyed Jewish girl, had a brother named Fernando. “Is he adopted? “ they would ask. This was the 80’s, and Jewish kids…
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Life Nina Tassler, Jewish-Latina Entertainment Exec and Activist, Shares Her Stories
“I’m a feminist,” Nina Tassler said. “I’m sure you can gather that from our conversation.” She’s right, of course. Figuring that out, in fact, was a no brainer. Our phone conversation, as many do recently, started with politics, and make no mistake about it: she was With Her. “I come from a long line of…
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News B&H Photo Accused of Anti-Latino Discrimination — Segregated Bathrooms for Whites
The federal government is charging the Hasidic-owned New York electronics store B&H Photo & Electronics with discriminating against its Hispanic warehouse workers — including separate bathrooms. Hispanic workers at the company’s Brooklyn warehouse are forced to use dirty, often broken restrooms, while white workers have access to “superior” toilets, according to the complaint U.S. Department of…
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Culture Jan Koum, WhatsApp and the Meaning of ‘The Walls Have Ears’
Benjamin Lerner writes about an interview he came across in the media with Jan Koum, the rags-to-riches Jewish immigrant from the former Soviet Union who founded WhatsApp and recently sold it to Facebook for a reported $19 billion dollars. Referring to WhatsApp’s emphasis on privacy in its social network, Koum said: “I grew up in…
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Fast Forward South Florida’s Jewish Community Grows Beyond Its Retirees
(JTA) — At the Urban Rustic Cafe in a strip mall in this city located between Miami to the south and the Palm Beach retirement communities to the north, the line for a table stretches out the door and into the parking lot. Inside the kosher establishment, the volume is loud. An elderly Orthodox man…
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News Reform Judaism With Latin Flavor Takes Root in Miami
(JTA) — When Alejandra Schatzky-Cohen and her husband decided to enroll their children in a Reform Jewish day school in North Miami Beach five years ago, they had more on their minds than the average prospective day school parent. The family was living in Caracas at the time and the situation for Jews in Venezuela…
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Culture Man Thinks, God Laughs, a Reader Writes and a Columnist Contemplates
A reader signing herself Goldele asks if I know anything about the origins of the well-known Yiddish proverb “Der mentsh trakht un got lakht,” “A man thinks and God laughs.” The knowledge that the future, whether conceived of as the result of blind fate or of a divine plan, is not under our control is…
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