Jonathan Abbett, at The Blogs

Jonathan Abbett

Aug 30, 2018, 7:14 PM

In 1997, as a U.S. high schooler on his first trip to Israel, I made it a top priority to sample all the kosher versions of America's great fast-food eateries, from which I had begun to withdraw back home...

Nov 27, 2014, 7:54 AM

Respecting our sacred spaces

As I've grown older, I've come to believe that the journalists who cover the Middle East are not mean-spirited or antisemitic, but are more likely exhausted. It is easy to take the day's events and apply a familiar template. Journalistic objectivism requires that every...

About Me

I am a software designer, amateur kosher cheesemaker, and father of three. I live outside Boston. I care deeply about Israeli and American civil society, Jewish unity, and using food to bring people together.