Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?
The opening line to this piece got way more complicated than I anticipated.
I wanted to quote a statistic on the number of decisions individuals make a day, so, of course, I googled it, and the number that came up was 35,000.
That seemed a bit high. I went a little further down the search results and there was a link to a discussion about that number. Hello Google rabbit hole, I’ve come to visit you. To summarize: The accuracy of that stat is contested; no one can find the source for it.
Barack O. Mandela growing up in Long Beach, California.
This essay is the first of a series of articles about my experiences as a black, Jewish, American, Israeli. This will be an exclusive “memoir” published on the “Times of Israel”.
I was born and raised in East Long Beach, California which is considered an inner-city ghetto or “hood”. While I was a law student, I converted to both Reform and Orthodox Judaism. I then moved to Israel for nearly six years where I served in the Israel Defense Forces. After 9/11, I served in the United States Army.
I have struggled to combine my African American traditions with my Jewish traditions. For guidance, I read Rebecca Walker’s “Black, White, & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self”. In addition, I met with Ethiopian Jews to talk about their traditions, culture, and history. I wanted to understand the “black-Jewish” experience.
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