My mom’s life aspiration is to become rich, or rather, for me to become rich. Ever since I’ve been old enough to read she’s been hankering for me to pick up one of her many investment books, particularly Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys instead. Somewhere along the way [...]
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Faking Jewish
Posted in Ashley on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Faking Jewish
Posted in Ashley on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Being an agnostic Chinese American, finding a story that proved relevant to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival posed quite a challenge. Luckily, my mother’s atypical childrearing came to the rescue.
When I was about eleven years old, my mother enrolled us in a Jewish single mothers Hanukah camp. Why, you may ask, would two regular [...]
The Yes Men Unveil The Naked Truth
Posted in Ashley on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Ashley Thompson
Many things come to mind when I hear the term “social justice film.” Among them: educational, thought provoking, inspiring, and perhaps images of the less erudite members of the audience drifting in and out of consciousness. Rarely do I think of entertaining, let alone laughing-so-hard-that-I-am-getting-a-day’s-worth-of-cardiovascular-exercise funny. Yet “The Yes Men Fix The World” [...]
