Published Works

Beyond Tribal Loyalties: personal stories of Jewish peace activists

I am honored to be a contributor to this wonderful book in which Jewish activists tell their deeply personal stories about how they came to hold the beliefs they do. I was pleased to review it for Mondoweiss (January 14, … View full post

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Know water–a poem

I hardly ever write poetry but I wrote Know Water after hearing David Rothenberg speak.  He published it on his terrain site–where issues of the natural and built environment are pondered and illuminated. http://www.terrain.org/poetry/6/kahan.htm

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The idea of Cuba

I wrote this after my first visit to Cuba, on the eve of the millennium, December, 1999. (Frigate is no longer an active web site but they have posted back issues.) It’s December 31st, 1999, the eve of the millennium, … View full post

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Varieties of Jewish Experience-published December, 2011

My review of The Arrogant Years: One Girl’s Search for Her Lost Youth, From Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Lagnado, published in the East Hampton Star, December 1, 2011. Varieties of Jewish Experience    

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Life in a Failing State-published June, 2011

This is an excerpt. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries,. View full post

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