Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman's Blog

“It’s like you think about race all the time.” “Because I have to. Because when I don’t, someone asks me what country I was born in even though I don’t have an accent…just because I...

https://alizahausman.com/2023/01/05/thinking-about-race/

I am currently an online volunteer tutor with Reading Partners at Jackson Elementary and they are looking for more help! Reading Partners is a program that pairs you with a child to help them wit...

https://alizahausman.com/2022/02/03/volunteer-online-reading-tutor-with-reading-partners/

Register here: https://www.meltonwestvalley.org/registration

https://alizahausman.com/2021/11/19/the-long-goodbye-deuteronomy-devarim-10-week-class-starting-january-4th-930-11-am-pst/

If you’re like me, you ask yourself this question every year. I hate baking. I hate cooking. Still, I make a few things for Thanksgiving. I make mashed Miracle Whip red potatoes. I make ensalad...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/11/18/best-non-dairy-pumpkin-pie-alternatives/

Blewish isn’t a term that I’d heard before stumbling upon this short film about an African-American Jewish boy struggling with his identity. My 6-year-old son and I watched it early this week...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/11/09/black-and-jewishblewish/

I have been a mixed-race person my whole life but I didn’t identify as a mixed-race until I was in college. Mixed-race seemed synonymous with being Dominican so it didn’t seem like I had to a...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/11/01/things-im-sick-of-hearing-as-a-mixed-race-girl/

Would anyone be interested in teaching with Torahverse, the new company I’m working for? They teach middle school and high school kids online or in person. The following subjects: Ivrit Convers...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/07/14/looking-for-jewish-educators/

This past Shabbat was the first time that we spent it with friends outdoors and indoors in masks. I hadn’t realized just how much I missed quality time with friends until that moment when we we...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/04/26/the-first-shabbat/

I have been teaching online for almost two years now. It has been the first time I’ve been able to work in a decade and a half outside of the freelance writing and public speaking I did when I ...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/03/05/the-rewards-of-teaching-online/

Since when I last updated my blog, the world is very different and not just for me. We’re currently in the middle of a pandemic and I haven’t seen my any of my close friends in-person since e...

https://alizahausman.com/2021/02/10/are-you-there-g-d-its-me-aliza/