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