"I keep seeing pictures of you on Facebook surrounded by women who cover their hair." "What's with you and these dati women?" "Are you turning Charedi on us?" I get these question all the time. The answers, in order: Yeah. So? I'll get to that in a minute. No. Given the great divide between the religious and secular populations in Israel at large, and in the Jerusalem area specifically, why do I continue to push those boundaries and grow closer to the many communities of frum

As happens from time to time, I was recently invited to speak at an event for entrepreneurs. Once we got past my super slick response to "What is your speaking fee?" with "You mean you're actually going to PAY ME?" (which won't happen again - learning opportunity!) we got down to business regarding the audience and what they're looking to learn. It's important to me, when speaking, to engage with the people who have dedicated their time and attention to attend. Since I genera

This post originally appeared in Kveller. Our family has arrived at a delicate, finite, oasis-type period which lies quietly in wait between the physical nightmare of small children and the emotional nightmare of teenaged children. Nobody is in diapers, nobody needs a nap, nobody demands peeled hot dogs or melts down into a puddle on the floor if we don’t find the pacifier with the blue stripe. Right. This. Second. We sleep through the night, almost always. No one is texting