…for most. But this woman may be the only Dominican American Orthodox Jewish rabbi’s wife (quite a mouthful) out there.

What’s a Jewminicana? Well, for one, a Jewminicana is a Dominicana who converts to Judaism. But reverse that because I’m a Jewish Latina…in that order. But just because I put my religion first doesn’t mean I think my culture should be second. I often find myself in uncomfortable conversations because of my hyphenated identity. Like

When my high school students at the inner-city public school where I taught asked if all Jews were rich, I said that indeed they were not. Certainly, there would be no trust fund awarded to me at the end of the conversion process so that I could join the Jews that were. Sadly, there was

One of my conversion rabbis, Haskel Lookstein, recently made headlines for walking into a church. The timing strikes me as a little crazy because I can’t stop thinking about a certain question I asked my other conversion rabbi, Elie Weinstock, and the ramifications of the answer he gave me. When I was converting to Judaism,