How to Build a Tribe in Ninety Minutes
Na'aseh V'Nishma, in Three-Part Harmony
Speaking From Within
Three kids, three passports, tons of wanderlust. My family came to England with Cromwell, fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. I split my time between the UK and US and write about Israel, Jewish life, and the questions people pretend they want answers to.
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Why Don't Jews Get to Go Home?
They started a war in 1967. They lost it. Sixty years later, they're still throwing a tantrum.
Two Jews, Three Opinions, One Song
What Israel's Eurovision entry says about a country whose every voice can be true at once.
From Stranger to Sage: A Bat Mitzvah Story
How a flippant offer at a London dinner became my daughter's Midwest bat mitzvah.
A Rabbi Leaves Town
Things that did not belong on the bimah.
Are we free, or are we fatigued?
The 18th edition of my Pesach companion is here.
They Are Asking Us to Disappear, Again
A response to "An Open Letter to American Zionist Jews"
Belonging, Authority, and Women Rabbis
Authority, evolution, and the future Orthodoxy is already negotiating
The Door Was Always Open
For my grandmother, one year on
Lighting Chanukah Candles in a Shadowed World
Between the global shadows of Bondi and a local betrayal in Kansas City, I am searching for the flicker that keeps us showing up.