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Jun 17, 2026, 10:55 AM

A Bakery, the Algorithm – Unexpected Social Media

For someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about the internet, I am sometimes accused of being rather suspicious of it. If you sit through one of my classes, though, you'd know really, I am driven by...

Jun 9, 2026, 8:14 PM

Gesher Tzar Meod

Today, I attended a gynecology conference in London to speak about DES—a topic I have explored in previous blog posts. I spoke about patient experience, medical harm, and the heavy physical toll women carry from decisions made before they...

Jun 2, 2026, 5:37 PM

Somatic Judaism

Somatic Judaism, rehabilitation, and the work of feeling safe again I went to a sound bath expecting stillness. What I noticed instead was movement. Not external movement. I was lying still, covered, quiet, surrounded by other people doing the same. But...

May 26, 2026, 11:36 PM

Law, judgement, and what comes after the process Shavuot has just passed. The cheesecake has been eaten, the flowers on synagogue bimahs are beginning to fade, and communities have returned to ordinary rhythm after the extraordinary annual moment of standing once...

May 18, 2026, 6:34 PM

Modena – Calculated Risk

Calculated Risk Last week, I wrote my blog from Basel in Switzerland, the city where Theodor Herzl imagined a national home for the Jewish people. We were in transit, driving from London to Modena, carrying with us the usual assortment...

May 12, 2026, 11:59 AM

The Basel Prescription

Photo taken by author outside Stadtcasino, Basel.

On Zionism, DES, and the Discipline of Staying Together Standing in Basel, it is difficult not to feel the weight of ideas. In this elegant Swiss city, in 1897, Theodor Herzl convened the First Zionist Congress and imagined something extraordinary: that...

May 4, 2026, 1:32 PM

What We Carried With Us: The Hidden Migration of DES (DiEthylStilbestrol).

There is a particular kind of inheritance that does not appear on any manifest. It is not declared at borders. It is not wrapped in cloth or tucked into hand luggage. It does not pass through customs, and no official...

Apr 28, 2026, 12:29 PM

Author visiting the former Jesmond Synagogue, Newcastle upon Tyne.

(London / Newcastle / Elsewhere, 2026)

Apr 20, 2026, 3:07 PM

On Gratitude, Absence, and What We Inherit

(London, Spring 2026) In recent months, I have seen a sentiment expressed more than once. A person writes that they are grateful their parents are no longer alive — spared, they say, from witnessing the rise in antisemitism now visible across...

Apr 15, 2026, 8:04 AM

For Yom Hashoah 2026

The Presence of Absence We live in a time of relentless information. Everything is immediate, searchable, visible. And yet, some of the most important truths resist that kind of clarity. They remain just out of reach, requiring something slower, more...

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About Me

Claire R. Bright writes on Jewish criminology, faith, and rehabilitation. A doctoral researcher and practitioner in criminal justice reform, she explores how Jewish ethics and moral responsibility inform desistance, belonging, and community reintegration.