Over the years, I’ve taken on a number of freelance projects that have been published in outlets such as The New York Times, NBC News, 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.
Published in The Jewish Book Council. When people think about the Jewish experience in World War II, there’s only one thing that immediately comes to mind: the Holocaust. But there is another side to the story, that of the 1.5…
How politics, fear, and quiet boycotts are narrowing the space for Israel-related voices in the literary world. Published in The Jerusalem Report. In the decade I spent pitching my debut book proposal to prospective agents and publishers, I faced repeated…
We must remember not only the recently fallen, but also on whose shoulders they stand. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel. Unlike Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is focused squarely on our painful past, the country’s annual Memorial Day…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. The official name of Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day is Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day. It’s a nod toward not only the victims of the genocide but also the resistance fighters who valiantly fought…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News Nearly a month into the war with Iran, it’s safe to say that much of what we have been experiencing in Israel has been unprecedented. It’s the first fully joint American Israeli military operation….
For the 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II victimhood was not the only story. Op-ed published in The Times of Israel As the world commemorates the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Tuesday on…
Published in The Hamilton Jewish News. It was a routine Associated Press reporting assignment. I was dispatched to a security conference in May 2015 to listen to panels of experts discussing Israel’s looming security threats. It was only when I…
Published in The Jewish Book Council My grandfather, Mickey Heller, served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force, including two years in Europe as a navigator in Bomber Command. But that’s all I, or anyone else in my family,…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. One of the defining memories of my youth is the 1990 Gulf War, and the subsequent Iraqi missile attacks against Israel early the next year. I was 14, and I distinctly remember the drama…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. The start of the inevitable Iranian retaliation to Israel’s stunning series of airstrikes caught me in the shower Friday night. Upon hearing the familiar sound of wailing air raid sirens outside, I quickly grabbed…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. With all the trauma and turmoil that has engulfed this country after more than a year of war, it seems almost trivial to describe the plight of daily life in central Israel under the…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. One would think that news of an impending, widescale attack from your nuclear threshold, sworn enemy nation would set off a panic. But that’s not what happened when I heard that Iran had finally…
Sudanese asylum seekers experience a double dose of trauma from Hamas attack on Israel. Feature published in HIAS. TEL AVIV — The Hamas attack on Israel last October 7 was so unprecedented, brutal, and barbaric that most people in the…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. When the wailing air-raid sirens woke me in the early morning hours of Oct. 7 and sent me stumbling to the safe room of our apartment in central Israel, my initial instinct was rather…