Previously I was a staff writer at Haaretz and editor of the blog Jewish&.
Over the last two decades, I’ve covered a Samaritan Passover sacrifice on Mount Gerizim in the West Bank, an African migrant church service in Tel Aviv, a Hebrew Israelite festival in Dimona, a Karaite Torah dedication ceremony in Northern California, and the 100th anniversary celebration of the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda. I’ve also written extensively about Jews of color in the United States.
Since 2009, I’ve been reporting on the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, a spiritual community of African American expatriates in Israel. I’m currently writing a book about the community.
In a different phase of my career, I worked at Be’chol Lashon, a nonprofit that supports ethnically and racially diverse Jewish communities. In 2010, I helped launch Camp Be’chol Lashon, a groundbreaking summer camp for Jewish kids of color that is still going strong.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and daughter.
Education: Harvard College, BA in African and African American Studies; Tel Aviv University, MA in Middle East and North African History
Honors and Awards: First Place, Simon Rockower Award for excellence in writing about social justice and humanitarian work, American Jewish Press Association (2023); George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University (2007); Eagle Scout Award
Marathons completed: Boston, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles
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