Author Archives: Adam

It takes a certain type of insidiously selective ahistoricism to understand—to feel viscerally—the impact that centuries- and millennia-old events continue to visit on Jews living today and at the same time deny that the events of 400 years of American history continue to impact the lives of today’s Black Americans.

An essay I wrote about Jewish responses to Trump’s COVID diagnosis was published today at Alma. Check it out.

I created this source sheet for tashlich. I hope it creates space for reflection and meaningful contemplation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_F6hiopfqTLiIyxtZxx4C8V0wFdPrrMjr9hTik9Tq-I/edit?usp=sharing

My essay about the summers I spent working at camp was published today by New Voices

Then came Pittsburgh and over the past few days I’ve kept expecting myself to feel something strongly like pain or anger or grief. But instead what I feel most powerfully is resignation–mixed with a sort of Jewish inevitability that feels like I’m being presented with corroborating evidence–and I fear that I am growing cynical. This essay was written eight months ago, and I’m sharing it now before the time comes when I return to it after another mass shooting somewhere in the public square of America and I am so worn down that it makes me feel nothing at all.