
Thoughts and words about the life we're living right now -- and my book, Reckonings from October 7th, in serial form
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It’s July 3.
Yesterday, July 2, marked 1,000 days since October 7, a day when thousands converged on Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, demanding a state inquiry into what led to the disasters of that day.
I wasn’t there yesterday, I was back i...
Hi all. It’s been a little while since I’ve been here — I was in New York with my family celebrating my stepdaughter’s wonderful nursing school pinning ceremony, amid the Knicks’ win and the World Cup, and before this week’s primaries.
In...
I’m about to go to bed as I start writing this, but I keep thinking about explosive drones that are killing soldiers in southern Lebanon.
I’m also still thinking about a Writers Festival conversation I heard last week with former hostage...
Chapter Three / Reckonings from October 7
It was late April 2026, and Daniel and I had just taken down the red-and-black banner for Hersh that had hung outside our garden fence for the last two and a half years.
Amid all the sad and hard stuff, I keep writing about arts and culture, and lately, there is so much to write about.
Please support my serialized memoir
Reckonings of October 7
It’s as if all the artists and playwrights and theaters and...
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Arts and culture editor at The Times of Israel
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