Jewish

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A half-Jew’s favorite Hanukah gifts?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ December 26, 2008 ⋅ 15 comments

I’m technically only a half-Jew.
Ask just about anyone, “Who’s a Jew?” and you’ll be told that a Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew, or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.
The Reform movement, however, considers a person to be Jewish if either of her parents was [...]

I ran into my first-ever boyfriend at Trader Joe’s, two decades later…

By singlemomseeking ⋅ September 9, 2008 ⋅ 38 comments

We’d met on a Jewish youth retreat during my freshman year of high school. E. was the first boy I’d really kissed. He’d always reminded of Billy Idol. Maybe it was his hair cut.
I’d actually tried to find him five years ago, after moving back to California. It was one of those classic moments when [...]