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November 2024

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.

Essay
November 2024

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, inherited and reshaped by every generation that comes after.

Essay
November 2024

Mexico City Reflections: Home and Identity

Walking through Mexico City, I kept thinking about what it means to build something sustainable.

January 2024 · Tablet Magazine

Mourning the Mother Who Left Me Behind

On grief, Jewish ritual, and finding unexpected closure through a Broadway show.

June 2023 · JDC Entwine

The Arev of the Jewish World

What it means to be a guarantor for people you've never met.

March 2022 · JDC Voices

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.

January 2022 · HuffPost

The Visibility and Invisibility of My Body

What it means when your body is sick in ways no one can see, and healthy in ways no one acknowledges.

June 2016 · HuffPost

Was the World Created for Me?

On the Talmudic claim that each person contains an entire world, and what that demands of us when the world feels broken.