After Rosh Hashanah services this morning, Shirley Kehimkar has invited family and friends home to enjoy an Indian feast she planned to get up at 3 a.m. to start preparing, including rice pilaf, chicken curry and grouper fish.The rest of The Star's article on the the teensy Indian-Jewish-Canadian population in the Toronto area is very interesting as well. (How many times can I tag a post "Hindi" and "Jewishness?!?" A very unique opportunity here indeed!)
"A Jew is a Jew. We're the same everywhere, but I do like spicing up my food," Kehimkar, 65, a retired civil servant who came to Canada in 1969, says with a chuckle.
If you have any desire to read more about my thoughts on Jewishness, this time in conjunction with feminism, I wrote about the subject today at BlogHer.
L'Shana tovah!
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That's pretty cool!
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ReplyDeleteAs a reporter in a mostly non-Jewish area, I was always amazed to find out how many Jews were in leadership roles in almost every civic, cultural and educational establishment I wrote about. There really is something amazing about Jews as a people. I don't know what it is, but I wish it would creep out to the general population more.
Suebob, I wish we were all good folks, but unfortunately in my old line of work, I came across way to many slumlords who were Jewish and left their buildings in deplorable conditions and could care less about the people who lived there. What makes me saddest and maddest about that is that so many low income people think of Jews as evil as a result because they've never had the chance to meet the do-gooders you and I know.
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