No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.

Hoping to apply what few marketable skills I’d acquired in school, I used my undergraduate’s Hebrew to check into options in Israel. I was eager to travel, open to adventure, but as a non-Jew, I...

A boy with a story must write.

Learning to pass, it turns out, is less a matter of acting than not acting. You can become part of a given scene, situation, or people (‘our people,’ as it were), simply by letting yourself...