I will always remember my grandmother sitting at the piano. She would be studying the sheet music, hands fluttering on the keyboard, her ears…
No Gender Revolution in Israel Yet
Israel almost had the makings of a gender revolution in politics recently. Things were looking up for women in the lead-up to the April…
How to Raise a Feminist Boy?
Do you have a theme?” asked the baker in the cake store. “Baseball? Superheroes? Fire engines?” My son was about to celebrate his second…
Walking the Technology Tightrope
Technology use is the bane of many parents. Recently there have been daily conflicting articles about the dangers of technology use. A long awaited…
Transcending Suffering
Readers often ask what compelled me to write a novel about the Holocaust. After all, I am not the child of survivors. In fact,…
Where is the Outrage?
It was incomprehensible. Though I understood the words, I could not understand the announcement being made. The Hand in Hand school was on fire?…
The Ugly Side of Grief
Several months ago, I was out on a jog and passed a young mother with a newborn snuggled up comfortably in a baby carrier.…
A Call for Change
Today, I acknowledge the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their elders: past, present and emerging. I do…
The Quest for Originality
These past holidays I was really struggling to think of a topic for this assignment. Every idea I had seemed boring, familiar and unexciting.…
The Musical Journey of a College Nigun Circle
It’s a rainy, dark, cold Monday night, and I am surrounded by an Ethnomusicology graduate student from France, a freshman Dance and Neuroscience double-major,…