JEWISH PRACTICES

• Jewish Meditation: 6 Tips for Creating an Authentically Jewish Meditation Experience,  The Times of Israel, September 22, 2015
• Exile, Freedom, and Awareness of God’s Presence, April 27, 2016
• The Purim Games, The Times of Israel, March 22, 2016
• The Joyful Fragrance of Sukkot, The Times of Israel, September 29, 2015

MUSIC AND BOOK REVIEWS

• Honoring Our Parents in Health and Sickness: The “Unexpected Gifts” of a Father’s Dementia, The Times of Israel, April 12, 2016
• From the Venetian Ghetto to Washington, DC: Celebrating the Music of Italian Jews , The Times of Israel, April 1, 2016
• “Reb Shlomo, Why Are You So Happy?”, The Times of Israel, October 25, 2015

RUSSIA, UKRAINE, ISRAEL

In my work at the Kennan Institute, I mostly focus on the politics of historical memory in the former USSR, particularly the Holocaust and Stalin’s repressions.

• “Who Will Make a ‘Schindler’s List’ About Soviet Jews?” The Times of Israel, April 24, 2017
• “The Courage to Be Israeli,” The Times of Israel, April 17, 2017
• “Why Trump’s Holocaust Statement Was So Offensive,” Newsweek, February 3, 2017
• “The Forgotten Holocaust: The Films of Boris Maftsir,” The Tablet Magazine, January 27, 2017
• “Why Are Memories of Stalin’s Terror Being Buried?” Newsweek, December 2016
• “The Price of Silence: Family Memory of Stalin’s Repressions,” The Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2016
• “Portraits from the Détente Era,” The Wilson Quarterly, Fall 2016
• “Babi Yar: The Holocaust as a Final Solution Began Here,” Newsweek, September 2016
• “Lev Simkin: The Holocaust Began in Ukraine,” Kennan Institute, June 2016
• “What Ukraine Can Learn from Other Countries’ Experience with PTSD,” Kennan Cable, January 2016.
• “In Kyiv, the Front is a Phone Call Away,” Kennan Cable, November 2014.
• “The Latent Power of Health Cooperation in U.S.-Russian Relations,” Science & Diplomacy, June 2013, co-authored with Mattew Rojansky
• “A Quiet Force: Health Cooperation in U.S.-Russian Relations,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 2013
• What If You Had Been Our Neighbors? , The Times of Israel,  May 5, 2016 (Commemorating Yom HaShoa)
• I Am a Former Jewish Refugee, And This Is Why Israel Is Important To Me, The Times of Israel, April 20, 2016
• Ukraine’s Plans for High Profile Baby Yar Commemoration Ceremony an Important Opportunity, The Times of Israel, October 6, 2015