Published: Good Men Project (January 22, 2015)
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Although I recall a great deal about the day I was nearly murdered, my conscious memory has suppressed the few minutes during which my head was held under water and my 6th grade classmates chanted “Drown the Jew!”... Read Original Article
Published: Good Men Project (December 17, 2014)
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It would be an understatement to say that I’m not an observant Jew. I don’t keep kosher, only periodically observe the High Holy Days, and didn’t even remember that it was Channukah until I saw this Facebook picture of former Rep.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (April 14, 2014)
The shooting yesterday at a Jewish community center in Kansas City was more than tragic. It was un-American.
This crime strikes a deep personal chord with me, not only because I have also been the victim of an anti-Semitic hate crime, but because its motivations fly in the face of our nation’s most important and fundamental ideals.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (December 16, 2013)
In the name of full disclosure: I am Jewish, and I love Christmas.
It’s pretty hard not to. How can you not feel all warm and fuzzy inside during a holiday that encourages people to spend time with their loved ones, embrace a whole canon of fascinating holiday folk lore, and create beautiful works of art?
Published: mic (November 11, 2013)
While I’m no stranger to covering stories involving discrimination, this one was especially personal to me.
In the aftermath of a New York Times story on a rash of anti-Semitic incidents in New York’s Pine Bush Central School District, Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced that he was directing the state police and Division of Human Rights to investigate any harassment, vandalism, or bullying that may have taken place.... Read Original Article
Published: mic (August 1, 2013)
co-author Tillie Adelson
Before we were columnists at PolicyMic, Tillie Adelson and I were just ordinary Jewish twenty-somethings visiting Israel for the first time through Yael Adventures. Yael, or Birthright as it is better known, is a program that offers a free trip to the Jewish State for young Jews between the ages of 18 and 26 who have never been there before.