I never realized how gross that sounded till just a few weeks ago. I was asked if I was in the next show at the Jewish Community Center and I cringed. Me??? MOI! stand down and kiss my feet. I am THEE I am MEEE SUSIE K TAYLOR. and in that thought a screeching sound broke my EGO as my Maiden name KREITMAN fell to the floor letter by letter.
I am closing a show about a brooklyn Jewish Family in the late 70s and at the JCC in AVENTURA and i FEEL so happy.
Being in a Jewish community AT LAST. I kept saying how lonely I have felt and nothing would fill that slice of parched spirit UNTIL i returned to my Jewish ROOTS.
I grew up at the JCC in South Miami. I went to a youth group there and met my first Boy Friend who I would have some very meaningful first times with. I would also join the B’nai Brith youth group and meet my best friends to this day. I would work out there all the time after hard long rehearsal days in High School and For some-reason I just LOST that connection and eventually like most things people let go of and yearn to return to, I decided I had no feeling toward it. I bar mitvahed my boys and I was done…
Actually i was in need of finding my jewish self again. I felt lost and cold since the 10/7 act that brought me and my connection to myself and others in my Jewish community to the front Burner.
I am writting this as I listen to the live streamed Shabbat services from Central Synagouge on the tail of finding that my eldest has an internship in NYC this summer and my younger son is getting into colleges and even getting scholarships.
I am surly heading to NYC next year maybe as early as this summer and I look forward to saying from the JCC to NYC in one singel bounce.
love SUZELLA
