May 2014
What is a Community?
A few days ago, I ran across an article asking a rabbi what a person could do instead of going ...
Vienna: A Stroll Through a Haunted City
I was in Vienna earlier this month to talk about my book and to show the documentary film I made at the U.S. Embassy’s ...
Great Books for—and about—Jewish LGBTQ Teens
According to education theorist Rudine Simms Bishop, fiction should serve as both a mirror and a window. That is, books ...
Rock and Roll, Religion, and Leonard Cohen
With very few exceptions, the story of American popular music in the last five decades is largely a story of ...
My Favorite Camp Clothes
Here in New York, the temperature is eking up into the 70s, and after continuous blizzards this winter, I couldn’t ...
Torah for One. Torah for All.
Two years ago a number of parents in my community approached me for assistance. Their daughters would all become b’not ...
Bringing to Light Quiet Heroism
I feel extremely fortunate to have been able to tell this very dramatic, and heretofore almost completely unknown, Holocaust rescue ...
Next Chapters (We’ll Miss This Southern Jewish Chapter!)
I am a lover of stories and often find myself drifting into worlds outside my reality. My young mind fought ...
The Gift of Generations: A Mother’s Song
Mom. Mommy. Ima. Madre. Mother. No matter how many ways I say it, the concept still catches me by surprise ...
Our Girls, the 1 in 5 and the 250
How the United States responds to the kidnapped Nigerian girls and the epidemic of rape on the college campus will ...