New York

Twice over the past few weeks I was asked to make presentations to high school students about what it’s like to be Jewish on a college campus. Usually implicit in that kind of invitation is a request for me to talk to about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment on campus. But that’s not my focus. I […]

My mother, Shirley Friedberg Neustein, was a childhood friend of Herman Wouk, the famed author who died last week at 103. They both attended a very special Zionist camp in the 1920 and ‘30s on Lake Champlain in Milton, Vermont. The boy’s division was called “Keeyuma,” and the girl’s division was known as “Carmelia.” My […]