Try not to talk about:
1. Politics
2. Homosexuality
3. Taxes
4. Healthcare
5. My seedy past
Try not to talk to guests using ditties like:
1. The F word for emphasis and then...
2. "You're a racist!"
3. "You're a classist!"
4. "That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
5. "What planet do you live on?"...at the close of conversations.
Practice:
1. Rebbitzen-like poise
2. Listening skills (or pretending to listen, ie, staring at forehead of speaker)
3. Yoga breathing
4. Vulcan-like facial expressions
5. Er, patience
I'm really a peaceful human being.
Aliza Hausman is a first-generation Dominican-American Latina Orthodox Jewish convert or “Jewminicana” who discovered she was born Jewish of Sephardic Jewish Turkish ancestry post-conversion. She is also a writer, blogger, educator & speaker. This blog chronicles her thoughts on being Hispanic & Jewish, focusing on identity, Judaism, Jews of colors, Latinos, diversity, race, ethnicity, conversion to Judaism, culture, multiculturalism, illness, disability, books, films, news & more….