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Alina Adams

Jun 16, 2015, 3:53 PM

How my family navigates being equally Black & Jewish

Raising her kids to love both parents' cultures and seeking commonalities other than who was killed where

Feb 11, 2014, 9:44 PM

Israeli Pairs skaters Andrea Davidovich and Evgeni Krasnopolski finished 15th in the Short Program in Sochi earlier today, just barely making the Top 16 cut-off to skate the Long Program on Wednesday. An Olympic medal is now completely out of...

Feb 4, 2014, 6:53 PM

Just how Israeli is the Israeli Olympic figure skating team?

Israel is sending three figure skaters to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. They are men's skater Alexei Bychenko, and Pairs skaters Andrea Davidovich and Evgeni Krasnopolski. The two men were born in Kiev, Ukraine. Andrea was born...

Jan 27, 2014, 5:57 PM

Oh, NOW we should boycott Sochi 2014?

I was born in the former Soviet Union, and immigrated to the US with my parents in the late 1970s as part of a deal wherein Jews were traded for wheat. In the 1990s, using my Russian language skills, I...

About Me

Alina Adams is the mother of three school-age kids who in her copious free time is turning her back list of traditionally published romance and mystery books into enhanced e-books, as well as collaborating with other authors to do the same.