Freelance

In recent years, I've taken on a number of freelance projects that have been published in outlets such as The New York Times Magazine, The New York Daily News, The Forward, Tablet, Haaretz, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, Guilt and Pleasure, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Magazine and The Seventh Eye. Since leaving AP in October 2020, I've also started writing analysis and commentary columns for various publications. Back in 1998, I started as an intern, assignment desk editor, associate producer, field producer and segment producer at NBC. My favorite role, though, was as a freelance correspondent for msnbc.com, where I regularly wrote features and human-interest stories from the Middle East, and where I kicked off my journalistic writing career.

Selected Stories

• Letter from Israel: Reflections of a year living under the threat of missiles (November 22, 2024)
• Canadian dispatches from Israel at wartime: Seeking escapism amid an Iranian attack (April 17, 2024)
• For Israel’s African Refugees, October 7 Brings Fresh Trauma (January 08, 2024)
• Canadian dispatches from Israel at wartime: We will never be the same after Oct. 7 (November 10, 2023)
• The road ahead for Israel after Oct. 7 (November 02, 2023)
• For a nation in trauma, it’s fight or flight (October 15, 2023)
• An unprecedented attack that conjures images of the Holocaust (October 11, 2023)
• Netanyahu can’t deliver on Saudi Arabia; history has passed him by (September 23, 2023)
• A sad 75th birthday for Israel (April 25, 2023)
• Israel’s Crisis Has a Distinctly American Flavor (March 27, 2023)
• Netanyahu made this mess – and only Netanyahu can fix it (March 03, 2023)
• What exactly is a “real” right-wing Israeli government? (June 22, 2022)
• King of the Negev: The forgotten savior of southern Israel (May 03, 2022)
• Israel’s sad post-terrorism ritual strikes again (April 04, 2022)
• Israel’s entrepreneur-in-chief looking for big Ukraine ‘exit’ (March 08, 2022)