Natan Sharansky Knows What ‘Anti-Zionism’ Really Means
Listen to my interview with the former Soviet refusenik on how to spot antisemitism. Also, fixing the fraught relationship between Israel and the Diaspora.
Judaism
College Antisemitism: My Personal Story
This story is one of a few that really molded me into the kind of journalist, and Jew, I am today.
Author Illustrates Fluidity of Racial, Religious Identity
Laura Arnold Leibman Discovers Multiracial Jewish Family That Can Trace Roots to Two Enslaved People in Barbados
Dr. Ruth: The Complete, Uncensored Interview
It was a pleasure to have interviewed 92-year-old sex therapist Dr. Ruth for Publishers Weekly.
Confederate Jews Confuse Southern Narrative
Author sees Jews as benefitting from white privilege, yet my own experience in the South was very different.
‘Nick Bones’ is a Best Debut Novel Finalist
It was great fun being developmental editor on Phil Cohen’s darkly humorous Jewish-themed apocalypse story.
Nanotech and Judaism: My Small, Strange Trip
After I left JTA in 2001, I had to take a break from Jewish news. I thought it’d be great to cover science, where there were fewer disputes, where things are either true or not true. Boy was I ever wrong.