What does it say about our culture that every holiday, two kinds of essays dominate the media: how to nail the holiday meal or its aftermath and how to talk about (insert touchy political subject here) at the dinner table with people who disagree? In the main, perhaps we’re overworked…

This is a message to true liberals (Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike). The failure of the progressive movement after the Hamas terror attacks of October 7th now renders the entire enterprise moot. If the idea was to advocate for progress, justice and equality, but to exclude Jews from this calculus…

One thing that I notice a lot in the “discourse” (and if you could see my fat fingers air-quoting you’d love it) around the Israel-Hamas war is how much people seem to want to convince each other. They seem to believe that they can make a post — however poignant…

It seems everyone hates themselves these days. After decades of Oprah, Gwyneth and Lizzo (pre cancellation), it turns out that we hate ourselves more than we even knew. And it took the Israel-Hamas conflict to bring this into sharp relief. Here’s my pitch, TV executives: it’s a version of America’s…

With tensions high around rising antisemitism and conflict in the middle east, friends of all kinds can find themselves in the most awkward situations for discussion. But friendships that are rooted in the workplace can have extra complexity. This is because most adults live in political and religious bubbles based…

Immigrants to the US and Canada don’t have a ton in common beyond a desire for a better life away from their home countries. Sometimes we move just for economic opportunity, other times it’s for environmental, social, political or justice reasons. Regardless, we have had one mostly ironclad agreement —…

Companies are being pressured to take stands on all kinds of hot button issues, including the latest war between Israel and the terror organization, Hamas. Most of this pressure is internal. In the 2010s, corporate activism shifted from being led by consumer action to being led by employee demands. Increasingly…

I’m done trying to get your sympathy, thanks very much. Like many liberal Jews, I’ve been concerned with the increasing antisemitism in progressive circles over the last 20 years. Of course liberals like me made common cause with progressives for two core reasons: We thought we had a shared belief…

Hamas’ unprecedented and disgusting attack on Israeli civilians is a catastrophe. The loss of life is still being understood, but it’s clear that innocent humans were tortured, raped, maimed, murdered and made to suffer in fear and anxiety for bloodlust and hatred. As someone who lived through 9/11 and its…