International correspondent.

Jewish and post-Soviet perspectives in exile.

Currently in Melbourne.

THE EASTERN BLOC is authored by the first generation in my family with unfettered access to toilet paper. All my parents wanted was for me to grow up in the Free World, but it’s gotten increasingly stupid here, so now I write about a Western world at odds with itself, and occasionally, my sex life.

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