Category Archives: Youth

Posts pertaining to youth.

Guns and Glaciers: Why the NRA is Wrong About Newtown

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

Remember what Kurt Vonnegut wrote about Sandy Hook Elementary School? It was tucked within the first few pages of Slaughterhouse-Five: Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the … Continue reading →

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The End of Truth Be Told?

Posted on August 21, 2012 by

It was during a split second of unfeigned awareness – over a medium-sized cup of lychee berry frozen yogurt that I was sharing with my mom – that I decided to start writing. We’d been talking politics when a knowing … Continue reading →

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The Right Questions After the March of the Living

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

Written for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles: I’m standing with my back against a brick wall at Auschwitz. Monise Neumann points to an area just beyond her and tells a story. When Freddy Diament arrived at the forced labor … Continue reading →

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A da Vinci, Then a Pollock – Reflections and a College Essay

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

This academic year, my classmates and I applied to and heard back from colleges. Over the past decade or so, the application process has become, in many respects, messy and circuitous. It asks more of us than some are willing … Continue reading →

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A Weapon of Distraction and Numbness – Fighting Computers in Classrooms

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

As featured in the Huffington Post, adapted from the original version on The Roar. I had never seen anything like it. I’d only left class for a few minutes, but as I was about to turn the corner, something caught my eye. I … Continue reading →

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The Force of Apathy – A Piece for the National Journal Sh’ma

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

As featured in Sh’ma, a national journal of Jewish ideology, alongside articles by former Senator Russ Feingold and Brandeis Professor Jonathan Sarna: Last spring, a local congressman came to speak at my high school. It was a routine visit: He … Continue reading →

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Restraint – Gilad Shalit’s Return to Israel

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

As featured on the Huffington Post: After five years in the custody of his Hamas captors, it seems that Gilad Shalit’s painful and much publicized saga is finally winding down. The Israeli government has struck a deal with Hamas: Israel … Continue reading →

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Obama at AIPAC – The Speech that Worked (in Theory)

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

On Sunday morning, I arrived in Washington, DC with a medium-sized group of high school students for the annual AIPAC Policy Conference. AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – the United States’ pro-Israel lobby. My views don’t always … Continue reading →

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And Then He Rolled His Eyes – Dignifying the Next Generation

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

On a summer day in 1963, a young Bill Clinton shook hands with John Kennedy. Clinton – just seventeen years old – was a participant in Boys Nation and was given the opportunity to spend a day at the White … Continue reading →

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The Potency of the R-Word – As Featured on the Huffington Post

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

As featured on the Huffington Post: It hardly comes as a surprise when Ann Coulter makes an offensive comment. The conservative commentator seems to make a career of spewing language that denigrates a different party practically each week. This week’s … Continue reading →

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