by JOCSM | Apr 21, 2017 | Arts |
By Aurora Levins Morales
Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
by JOCSM | Apr 12, 2017 | Arts |
By Aurora Levins Morales How We Eat (from Masa Ball Soup) Inca potatoes are made into Indian curry, German potato salad, Irish leek soup, and Ashkenazi latkes. Chinese oranges grown in Spanish groves become English marmalade. California farms grow kiwi from northern... by JOCSM | Mar 29, 2017 | Arts |
By Danny Bryck The text is a combination of English and Hebrew, in Solitreo lettering, and reads “Unruly” (the name of this blog) and intertwined below it, “Lo Nechmadot.” It was designed originally as one half of a T shirt for the Jews of... 
by JOCSM | Mar 27, 2017 | Analysis, Essay, Organizing |
By Sydney Levy Last month, I found myself praying at the Wailing Wall — but I was not in Jerusalem. I was at the wall that separates San Diego from Tijuana. It is a metal structure that extends eastward as far as the eye can see into the horizon, and that dips... 
by JOCSM | Mar 10, 2017 | Analysis, Organizing |
By Sydney Levy Growing up as a Jewish kid in Venezuela, Purim was one of the many calendar dates that separated us from the non-Jewish population. The rest of the country dressed up for Carnaval, and a few weeks later we dressed up for Jewish Carnaval,... 
by JOCSM | Feb 23, 2017 | Analysis |
By Mark Tseng-Putterman A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents’ house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents’ six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an...