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My Mizrahi mom and why Pride matters
Liberation matters. LGBTQ Pride, a march forward for individuals, families and communities from shame, fear, and despair, matters. Even in Jerusalem. The effort is about identity and inclusion, about living this one life as freely as possible. There is nothing holy about closets filled with shame. Coming out Queer, especially in 1976, even in San Francisco, […]
Child Sexual Abuse is No Joke Ms. Streisand
Those of us who were seduced and abused as children know that even as we thrive we are scarred for life...read more
Rethinking Baghdad – In a Better Place
Me: “I wish we lived in Baghdad’s Jewish Quarter.†Mom: “What? The Jewish Quarter?†Raising her left eyebrow, “Are you crazy?†I was longing for her nightmare. Romanticizing the Jewish Quarter of Baghdad was the height of stupidity. “Booma†(unwise owl), she chided lovingly. Here we were, in California, in her San Francisco kitchen, with […]
I Give Up – It’s Just Not Personal
Feelings come easily for me; I get mired in them. Especially hurt feelings. Loss laced with Fear. Hard stuff. I am wired to feel whether I want to or not. I have not mastered the skill of dissociation. Working consciousness into my feelings keep them from turning into quicksand. Wrestling with where to go with […]
Granny’s Abortion
“They saved my life, they were Muslim, a young doctor and his wife, when I gave myself an abortion and almost died,” Granny remembers. “Efraim (her husband) was so angry I think he would have let me die!” Granny’s story was different from most of the Jews of Baghdad. She wasn’t born there. She grew […]
Yoga and Anti-Semitism
“Ah, I used to think about anti-Semitism!” Dr. Ross exclaimed with a burst of energy as he read my response in his new patient questionnaire. “What do you think about?” was the big question. I was there to see him for my migraine headaches. My response, “Anti-Semitism,” resonated. “Thinking about Anti-Semitism used to give me […]
Under the Chuppa – the Persian ‘Revolt’ in LA
The day after DOMA was overturned, Los Angeles Rabbi David Wolpe, announced that he will be performing same-sex marriages in his synagogue, Temple Sinai. The Rabbi upset enough of the thousand strong Persian congregants of his high-profile Conservative Synagogue, to warrant a front-page article in the New York Times citing a “revolt†in the congregation. […]
The First Lesbian Divorce Case
DOMA, the “Defense of Marriage Act,†should have been a bad joke instead of a law the Supreme Court finally declared unconstitutional this week (June 26,2013). But it wasn’t a joke, and neither was my marriage of 31 years to a woman whom I legally married one week before Prop. 8 got viciously overturned four […]
The Rock Star Room? No thanks…
As a proud owner of Olivia, I enjoy “VIP” status when I travel to places Olivia charters. Once a year I indulge a lovely habit of going with a friend for a restful time—off season in a half empty hotel on some magnificent tropical beach without Olivia. I am always ambivalent to go without the […]
Finger Exercises?
There was nothing I couldn’t talk about with Granny, who died two years ago at 103. I asked her when she was in her early nineties. If she could have chosen a different life, if she could have been with women, would she have? “Yes, I think so†she said.  “So did you ever think of […]
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