President-elect Trump has already started naming members to his cabinet. This week, he nominated now-former Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida to be U.S. Attorney General. After the announcement, Gaetz resigned […]
As the saying goes, knowledge is recognizing that tomatoes are a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put them in your fruit salad. In other words, sometimes there is […]
What I have learned over the last year about creating systemic change and how I can use those lessons to make the world I want to see. In June, I […]
The 2024 election season has been marked by controversy and marred by ever-fluctuating polls. Here in Ohio, there are several important races, including a citizen ballot measure, Issue 1, that […]
“What holiday is coming up next?” This can be a dangerous question in Progressive Jewish spaces. Because inevitably, depending on the season, a kid will raise their hand and say […]
Some years ago, I was introduced to a young woman through some mutual friends. She was a lovely person and had a lot of questions for me — I was […]
This year, Halloween (the formerly pagan and now American version of Purim, without the awesome we-survived-an-attempted-genocide-and-now-we-eat-triangular-cookies back story) falls at the end of the Jewish holiday season. Some folks like […]
“I am writing this as if nothing has happened, as if I’m in an army experienced in cruelty. But I’m young. I’m 14, and I haven’t seen much in my […]
In 2006, Yad Vashem published a diary in which 14-year-old Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew, wrote about her life for four months in 1943, until her deportation and murder in […]
One of my favorite Talmudic phrases, maiy nafka mina, literally means, “what comes out of it,” a sort of rabbinic, “So what?” For a study of antisemitism in this moment, […]