Writing
Mexico City Reflections: Foundations and Resilience
Mexico City is literally sinking. What that physical reality taught me about building on soft ground, and what resilience actually looks like when the earth beneath you keeps moving.
Mexico City Reflections: Culture and Tradition
At the Anthropology Museum, I kept thinking about how culture is a record of how people have chosen to express who they are. Art as education. Identity as something inherited, reinterpreted, reshaped.
Mexico City Reflections: Home and Identity
Walking through Mexico City, I kept thinking about what it means to build something that holds. The city itself had a lot to teach.
Mourning the Mother Who Left Me Behind
On grief, Jewish ritual, and finding unexpected closure through a Broadway show. Andrew to add the Tablet link.
The Arev of the Jewish World
What it means to be a guarantor for people you've never met. A reflection on Ethiopia, the Jewish concept of arevut, and global Jewish responsibility.
Balancing Curiosity and Cultural Sensitivity
What Nepal taught me about the difference between curiosity that serves the curious and curiosity that actually respects the people you're curious about.
The Visibility and Invisibility of My Body
On chronic illness, identity, and what it means to inhabit a body that is both visible and invisible in different spaces.
Was the World Created for Me?
On vulnerability, belonging, and community in the wake of tragedy — and the existential question of whether we are each worth a world.