053 | Into the waters: Joining the ancestors, an interview with the AJU Mikvah
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020: I go to the mikvah today to become Jewish. Here are my thoughts the night before.
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020: I go to the mikvah today to become Jewish. Here are my thoughts the night before.
Passover is one of the highlights of the Jewish calendar and nearing the home stretch of my Jewish journey to conversion, I was truly looking forward to experiencing it for the first time as an adult. The banter, the torah, the weird foods—the gathering is the biggest thing American Jews do during the year. So naturally Trump ruined it by […]
A special Shabbat greeting and some learning and action resources to share
The far-right takeover of the mainstream GOP, a call for mass violence, and anti-semitism
It’s peak Netflix in general, but also for Jewish and Haredi content. Here’s what I learned. One of Us Netflix, 2017 (Yiddish, English) Netflix documentary One of Us highlights the plights of ultraorthodox Jews who fled the community and like Esty in Unorthodox (below), didn’t exactly leave easily. One lives in a camper in LA, another faces terrible harassment and […]
September Mad Mensch: Dead Jewish Bodies Aren’t Social Justice.
Like all fake activism for Palestine, it actually does tremendous harm to Palestinians as well as Israelis and Jews and only keeps the conflict going.
Contribute to my first Israel trip—everything truly helps!
Things aren’t good. A look at events in the Jewish world this week as antisemitism skyrockets and Jews around the world are increasingly alarmed This is a post from Doing Jewish Substack, March 30, 2024. Subscribe to get them first, direct to your inbox. 🔥 In the last 30 days: The internet blew up praising a man…
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).
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