Israel
Let’s Dance at The Kotel
The recent reports of women being dragged from the Kotel — the Western Wall — while Torah scrolls were ripped ...
Mr. Prime Minister, Tear Down This Wall!
In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...
The War of Narratives
When I first started writing, I loved reading advice for writers from my favorite authors. Yet there was one common ...
An Intentional Detour
In my last few blogs, I wrote of my hope that The Promise of Israel can help foster a new ...
Ideas Do Matter
In my previous blog, I wrote that I hoped that The Promise of Israel might give new shape and direction to the ...
The Nation-State
People sometimes ask: What would you like your book to accomplish? In this case, my answer is easy: I would be thrilled ...
Shofar? So Good, Y’all!
Sometimes, in a small Southern town, you might not hear the call of the shofar outside of High Holy Day ...
“Wow! I Didn’t Know I Live in Such a Progressive Country!”
Having traveled frequently to Israel for the last decade, I have many amusing stories of security interviews before boarding flights ...
The Dangers of Nice
When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...
My First “Freedom Ride”
A couple of years ago I learned about a new front in the internal Israeli struggle over religious freedom: gender ...
Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading
As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...
Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar
JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...