Comments on: Living Life from Under My Jewfro

By: zalel

zalel — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:57:02 +0000

One time, when I was explaining kashrut, my (didn’t know she was) evangelical roomie told me jesus said we can eat pork now. In the course of various furious rejoinders, I only managed to pierce her ignorance with one example of how she didn’t know sh*t about her lord. That was when I asked why, if he didn’t care about Jewish practice, he beat the moneychangers?

I didn’t get bothered after that.

By: Aliza Hausman

Aliza Hausman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:32:03 +0000

Okay, Adam, I don’t feel so bad now. Now that was some food for thought. POLKA-DOT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN?!

By: Adam Kaidmon

Adam Kaidmon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:56:47 +0000

You and my wife would get along perfectly.

Mother is from China.
Father is Black but with a fair amount of White and Native in there.
Born in the States and grew up in East Africa.
Raised staunch Atheist but became a Muslim a few years back.

Got more than her share of discreet and not-so-discreet “Where are you from?” (answer “Philadelphia”) and more honest “What are you?” (American) and has been mistaken for everything from Nepalese to Canary Islander ?!

It took a while for my parents to accept the fact that I was going to marry her. Son, we hear you’re marrying a girl who’s part Indian. Why don’t we give you an Indian name like Sitting Shiva after the remarks about my grandfather rolling over in his grave if he knew he was going to have “polka-dot great grandchildren”. When she converted they were convinced for the longest time that she would become a radical Mohammedan Terrorist and blow things up.

Her personal motto is “Confusion to the narrow-minded”. It’s a very useful one.

By: Chris_B

Chris_B — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:06:27 +0000

That show was regular viewing for me as a kid and I loved the Juan Epstein character.

By: Shemspeed Daily » Blog Archive » Frum Response Old Roomate

Shemspeed Daily » Blog Archive » Frum Response Old Roomate — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:21:19 +0000

[...] was a comment on Frum Satire’s blog, left by my roomate Brando who has a Jewfro (not pictured [...]

By: ghottistyx

ghottistyx — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:00:55 +0000

I give it to DR. During the Holocaust, they were one of the few countries that allowed Jews to emigrate (esp. after America shut its doors post-Pearl Harbor). In fact, the school where I go to (City College of New York) once had the Jewish Studies and Dominican Studies departments cosponsor a trip to the Jewish community of Santo Domingo.

Ever seen the TV show “Welcome Back, Kotter”? There was a character on that show named Juan Epstein (full name Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo DeHuevos Epstein), and he was a Puerto Rican Jew. There are plenty of jokes about his mixed heritage in the show. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is that his mother’s specializes in cooking Gefilte Mofongo. And yes, he proudly brandished a full Jew-fro!

By: s(b.)

s(b.) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:45:17 +0000

big hugs. one of my aunts got the jewfro from my grandfather. I think it’s beautiful.

By: Bearded, JewFro'd man

Bearded, JewFro'd man — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:02:01 +0000

sure you can! and i just took a peak at your blog. love it.

By: Aliza Hausman

Aliza Hausman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:58:35 +0000

Your comments are so good! Bearded JewFro’d Man, can please steal your comment for a future blog post?