Other Writing Reporting, Reviews, & Opinion Op-Ed: Why Is New York Condoning Illiteracy?, The New York Times, April 4, 2018 How Hasidic Judaism Still Manages to Thrive, Forward, July 1, 2018 Jews in New York: A Legacy of Liberalism and Shifting Demographics, Forward, January 21, 2018 Is it Possible to Leave Orthodoxy and Remain Culturally Hasidic?, Forward, September 29, 2017 An Architecht Turns His Genius to Scheming in an Isaac-Abraham Reboot, New York Times, July 7, 2017 Breaking Away: Former Hasidim Find Fulfillment in the Secular World, Contact, Winter 2017 Yiddish Harvest: Life on a Yiddish Farm, Contact, Winter 2016 Op-Ed: Chasidic Schools Ensure Ignorance and Poverty, The Jewish Week, September 17, 2015 Op-Ed: Faigy Mayer’s suicide is a Jewish tragedy, not just an Orthodox one, JTA, July 24, 2015 It’s Just Not True that Hasidic Women Choose Not to Drive, Haaretz, June 17, 2015 What ‘Felix and Meira’ Gets Right About Leaving Hasidic Life, The New Republic, April 20, 2015 Who Says Hasidim Have Dead Eyes?, Forward, June 18, 2014 Online and Unabashed: Orthodox Rabbis on the Internet, Tablet, April 11, 2014 In Death of Ex-Hasidic Mother, a Mirror for Trauma of Many, Tablet, October 2, 2013 And Now, Shlomo Carlebach the Musical…, Lilith, Fall 2013 The Secret Genius of Hasidic Fashion, Forward, July 25, 2013 Williamsburg Bike Wars Provide Family Drama, Forward, July 22, 2013 Ex-Hasidic Mother Loses Custody of Children, Unpious, May 20, 2013 How Many Sins Can One Hasid Commit, Forward, February 27, 2013 Interview with Michael Jenkins, Unpious, May 26, 2011 Ex-Haredi Artists Grapple With Their Pasts, Forward, April 27, 2011 Essays & Personal Narrative Your Reader Is Not Your Therapist: And Other Thoughts on Memoir Writing, Paper Brigade, Winter 2017 The Chosen: Encountering Danny Saunders, Crush, March 2016 ASK BIG QUESTIONS: When Do We Say No?, Jewish Book Council, April 16, 2015 Making My Own MFA, Jewish Book Council, March 5, 2015 What We Talk About When We Talk About Hasidim, Jewish Book Council, March 2, 2015 Can an ex-Hasid Fit In, Without Ever Hearing Nirvana or Watching Cartoons?, Forward, July 14, 2015 How Purim, Judaism’s Boozy Rejoinder to Halloween, Shook My Faith, The New Republic, March 5, 2015 Men Pushing Baby Strollers? Only Goys Do That!, Forward, July 20, 2015 My Craigslist Roommate Seemed Perfect — Until Tragedy Struck, Narratively, Jan 7, 2015 Why I Am Not Modern Orthodox, Zeek, July 2, 2013 Hasidic Fathers Fret About Providing, Forward, March 22, 2013 The Sound of Sin, Salon, April 19, 2012 Ex-Hasid At Rainbow, Sh’ma, December 1, 2011 It’s Hotter Under the Hasidic Collar, New York Daily News, August 3, 2011 A Raizel by Any Other Name, TribeVibe, August 3, 2011 Too Cool, Tablet, June 22, 2011 What is Really Happening in New Square?, Forward, May 30, 2011 A Person of Prominence, The Brooklyn Rail, March 1, 2011 My Heretical Spin Through the Jewish Year Why I Remain Connected to the Family of Jews, Forward, September 18, 2016 Why We Cannot Transform A World Without Transforming Ourselves , Forward, August 13, 2016 How Tammuz Helped Me Find Meaning In a Godless Universe, Forward, July 9, 2016 Why Talmud Is the Way To Be Jewish Without Judaism, Forward, June 9, 2016 Why I Love Israel But I Am Not a Zionist, Forward, May 15, 2016 We Were Aliens In Egypt — And I Still Am One Today, Forward, April 16, 2016 Purim and Encounters with Bigotry — Including Our Own, Forward, March 20, 2016 What We Can Learn From Hillary Clinton, Mark Twain — and a Hasidic Master, Forward, February 21, 2016 Why We Want Our Plantings to Be Like Us, Forward, January 31, 2016 When My Hasidic Past Rediscovered Me, Forward, January 5, 2016 How I Kept My Faith in Faith, Forward, December 1, 2015 What I Learned From an Act of Shoplifting, Forward, October 19, 2015 Introducing: My Heretical Year, Forward, September 24, 2015
