I love to find and tell stories.
During my career, I have done everything from cover small-town school board meetings to interview the President of the United States in the Oval Office. At Columbia Journalism School, I was privileged to help the next generation of journalists find and tell their own stories, and plan to continue that work through editing, teaching, and consulting.
SELECTED Speaking Engagements
Leo Baeck Institute, “Fighting Back: Jewish Responses to Antisemitism — November 3, 2024
Museum of Jewish Heritage: “What They Didn’t Burn” Book Launch — October 5, 2021
Jane Eisner and ADL Never is Now 2018 - What’s Driving Antisemitism? — December 15, 2018
Jane Interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg, February 5, 2018 — the Forward
Stories
A Fish Out of Water on a Bird-Watching Vacation — AARP Magazine (members only)
An Online Oklahoma Charter School Might Upend Public Education — Arc Magazine
Are the campus protesters angry enough with Biden to vote for Trump? — Los Angeles Times
Want more youth voting? We know what works. — A-Mark Foundation
Will Young Americans Finally Rock the Vote? — Zocalo Public Square
How Should We Read the Texts of Purim and Passover This Year?
Alice Shalvi, Hailed as a Mother of Feminism in Israel, Dies at 96 — The New York Times
When Judaism Went À La Carte – On the 50th anniversary of The Jewish Catalog — The Atlantic
Jewish Americans Speak Out About Living With Antisemitism — AARP Magazine
Zelensky Is a Jewish Hero. Some Worry the Acclaim Won't Last — ARC Magazine
Evangelical Christians are politicizing the Jewish story of Esther — The Washington Post
The outsider who became the ultimate insider — The Jewish Chronicle
Giving and Doing Jewish Charity is Needed to Address the Social Ills of COVID-19 — Berkeley Center
Op-Ed: Israel’s prime minister has gone too far this time — Los Angeles Times
Trump and Netanyahu Are Breaking the Bond Between American Jews and Israel — Time
Book Reviews
‘A Sand County Almanac’ Remains a Classic at 75 — The Washington Post
3 Thinkers Trace the Intellectual Heritage and Communal Beliefs of Judaism — The Washington Post
She wrote in the Holocaust’s shadow. Can Poland bear to read her? — The Washington Post
The deep, difficult comfort of ‘When Bad Things Happen to Good People’ — The Washington Post
How American Jews’ relationship with Israel went from ‘Exodus’ to anguish — The Washington Post
In his memoir, Benjamin Netanyahu Glides Through His Life Story — The Washington Post
Searching for Anne Frank’s betrayer, finding a moral dilemma — The Washington Post
Jerusalem’s subterranean discoveries and disputes — The Washington Post
Recovering from a workplace crisis, with ideas for fixing our civic crisis — The Washington Post
For three generations of Bush women, personal pain and a public spotlight — The Washington Post
A rabbi’s final call for a commitment to the common good — The Washington Post
Charting Fox News’s slide from serious news outlet to ‘state media’ — The Washington Post
Courage and kindness in a small French village, a haven for refugees — The Washington Post
When Jews under Nazi terror pleaded for help — and America ignored them — The Washington Post
The arguments that forged American Judaism — The Washington Post
Awakening to the depth of American anti-Semitism — The Washington Post
Columbia Journalism Review
Showing the breadth of anti-Semitism — Columbia Journalism Review
The uncertain future of Jewish news media — Columbia Journalism Review
