PEN America Equivocates on Boycotting Israel
The Wall Street Journal · July 2026
I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.
Times of Israel / The Forward / Jewish Telegraphic Agency / Various · July 2026
Original analysis of the decline in publishing acquisitions of Jewish fiction.
From Rachel Goldberg-Polin, we all heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood
The Jeruslalem Post / Times of Israel / The Forward / JTA / Various · September 2024
Widely syndicated across the Jewish press and selected for JTA’s year-end roundup of the essential Jewish conversations of 2024.
For this I became a Jew? Yes, for exactly this I became a Jew.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency · June 2025
Here’s What My Parents’ 1974 Wedding Would Cost In 2017 Dollars
BuzzFeed · 2017
1M+ views; BuzzFeed’s most-read lifestyle essay of the year.
I Read Lindy West’s New Memoir About Her Marriage and… GIRL.
Field Notes for the Brave · March 2026
90K+ views; widely cited in the national conversation around Adult Braces, with 1,300+ likes and 330+ comments.
Married women are sleeping with their husbands... and the manosphere is PISSED
Field Notes for the Brave · February 2026
45K+ views; sparked a 120+ comment debate about marriage, sex, feminism, and the manosphere.
Selected Essays
December 2011
A Practical Wedding, First Edition
Hachette Book Group
January 2016
A Practical Wedding Planner
Hachette Book Group
January 2020
A Practical Wedding,
Revised Edition
Hachette Book Group
Bestsellers
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From the critics