INTERVIEWS

Science, Dead Girls, Your Father, & More

Whale Road Review: A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose, Issue 31/Summer 2023

An August 2022 conversation with Jared Singer, the New Jersey-based poet and sound engineer, about publishing his first book — Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction — writing for the stage and the page, tattoos, touring and performing, putting on tefillin, learning Hebrew, and losing weight. An earlier version of this interview was published at The Wisdom Daily (March 3, 2023).

The Reverend of Belfast’s Jewish Community

The Wisdom Daily, December 28, 2020

An interview with David Kale, the religious leader of Northern Ireland’s only remaining synagogue

An earlier article about Reverend Kale may be found here:

Belfast’s reverend/Keeping Northern Ireland’s last synagogue alive

The Jerusalem Report/The Jerusalem Post, July 22/29, 2020

PDF of the article from The Jerusalem Report print magazine, August 3, 2020, pp. 25–27

How Rabbi Klein used Jewish ethics to help rehabilitate inmates

The Wisdom Daily, September 9, 2020

An interview with the rabbi who used a combination of musar and the teachings of Benjamin Franklin to help prison inmates on their path to rehabilitation

An earlier article about how Rabbi Eliahu Klein integrated Franklin’s autobiography and musar practice into a California rehabilitation program may be found here:

Benjamin Franklin’s virtues — and practical Jewish ethics in prison

The Jerusalem Report/The Jerusalem Post, May 14/21, 2020

PDF of the article from The Jerusalem Report print magazine, May 18, 2020, pp. 33–35

 Mariusz Matera and Preserving the Memory of Jewish Life in Chelm

written with Ariela Alush

New English Review, April 2020

An interview with Polish artist, activist, and musician Mariusz Matera