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

• Who is the outlier, Trump or Biden? The answer means much to the world (November 22, 2021)
• As he turns 100, Mickey Heller still returns to World War II (November 11, 2021)
• After repeated strikeouts, can baseball finally make contact with Israelis? (July 29, 2021)
• Biden backed Israel in Gaza. Now it’s time to return the favor (May 24, 2021)
• Hamas comes to Netanyahu’s rescue once again (May 14, 2021)
• Appreciate Yom HaShoah – it soon won’t be the same (April 11, 2021)
• There are too many elections in Israel. That’s not good for democracy (March 09, 2021)
• Israel’s last chance to fix its ultra-Orthodox problem (February 16, 2021)
• Joe Biden is the ‘Jewish’ president Israel needs (February 01, 2021)
• The Haredi elephant in the room of Israel’s coronavirus crisis (January 13, 2021)
• A focused Netanyahu is down, but not out (December 29, 2020)
• Why Biden Could Never Beat Bibi (December 08, 2020)
• For Israeli comics, English is the next frontier (January 07, 2020)
• The Lost Dakota Fighters of Israel’s War of Independence (May 28, 2019)
• The unknown stories of Canada’s Jewish World War II Veterans (May 08, 2019)