058 | Finding My Kosher Body: Sex, Bacon, Tattoos, and other things on/in you
Let’s talk about sex, Bubbe: Porking, bacon bits, and the tattoo taboo in Judaism
Let’s talk about sex, Bubbe: Porking, bacon bits, and the tattoo taboo in Judaism
This week as I marked my first Tisha B’av as part of the community, booms filled the sky. Smoke filled the air in Portland and beyond, and I thought of all the atrocities that befell Israel over time and how we’re now seeing it again in America.
Our Pharaoh is shrugging at the plagues, telling us to go back to work on the Pyramids, and Christian Bale is nowhere to be found.
Every year in San Francisco, a giant pink triangle adorns Twin Peaks over the Castro. What does it mean?
Barcelona once had a 10% Jewish population and today, it’s stripped of most of that history. Here’s what I did find.
More from The Wandering Jew: A return to a place I visited 25 years ago, and some Jewish surprises there
A lot is awry at the moment: political violence in America, white nationalists in the streets, and a general feeling of unease as 5783 kicks off with a renewed sense of dread and antisemitism. A recap of October.
Bobby Apperson is a musician, writer, songwriter, piano & voice coach, and bon vivant living in Los Angeles, Calif. He is currently blogging about his conversion to Judaism and all that entails (and what he doesn't yet know that it entails).