Review of God vs. Gay? by Jay Michaelson
The Gay & Lesbian Review, Jan-Feb, 2012. Read here (and PDF).

Confessions of a Pinkwasher
Gay City News, December 7, 2011.
Shapiro’s professional hasbara may offer less sizzle than the Israeli-Netanyahu style. But isn’t the approach modeled by the American ambassador more respected because it’s truly respectable? (read more)

Equalizing Blacks and Gays
Gay City News, May 11, 2011. 
Is the LGBT rights movement a logical next step in the civil rights struggle that African Americans pioneered in the 1950s and ‘60s? (read more)

Brothers' Keepers
Gay City News, April 18, 2011. Read here.
(Review of Ivan and Misha by Michael Alenyikov.)

The LGBT Center's Town Hall: A Jerusalem Take
Gay City News, March 30, 2011.
Given the lack of underlying constitutional guidelines in Israel, the question of whether Israel is an apartheid state misses the point about Israeli politics. (read more)

Israelis Don’t Ask. They Tell
Moment Magazine, November 1, 2010.
If you tried to enact a law like Don't Ask, Don't Tell in Israel today, you’d be laughed out of the Knesset. Whether or not they’re asked, Israelis tell. (read more)

Provisional loyalty to a provisional state
Haaretz, October 15, 2010.
Each of us gets to decide whether to follow the rules or change them. In Hebrew we call this 'combina,' a slang word referring to the bypassing of rules or commitments. Read more.

The Math and Aftermath of Ground Zero
Huffington Post, September 8, 2010.
And this is where the ADL and I differ. They recommend a distance -- "the controversy which has emerged regarding the building of an Islamic Center at this location is counterproductive to the healing process" -- while I'm so naive to believe that the healing process rather requires bringing two points together. (read more)

Bless Me, Brother, For I Have Sinned
Gay City News, September 1, 2010.
Before I was out of the closet, I was in the closet. I am not the only one, I’ve just realized. Before Ken Mehlman was out of the closet, he, too, was in the closet. (read more)

On Park Avenue
Alef, August 19, 2010.
At almost 90 degrees at noon with 60 percent humidity on a Thursday, one may think the main difference between Manhattan and the Promised Land is that here Jews complain about the weather in Fahrenheit. (read more)

Cecilia and Me
Gay City News, July 21, 2010.
On a recent flight, I was fortunate enough to share a seat next to Cecilia, a charming elderly woman from Mexico City. Three hours of attempting to impress her with my five words of Spanish proved enough to transform us into intimate travel companions.
No wonder, then, that as I helped Cecilia with her bags at the end of the flight, her motherly instincts got the best of her and she asked me whether I had a girlfriend. (read more)

Bias in black and white
Haaretz, April 5, 2009.
The venomous disregard for the truth makes Spanish criticism of Israel banal and misses important issues. This simplistic anti-Israel narrative represents not a noble struggle for human rights, but rather a contamination of both journalism and the great democracy that the newspaper serve. (read more)