: About Me

When I graduated from Ridgefield High School in June of 2003, I made a risky decision to move to Brooklyn, NYto go out on my own in the world instead of going off to college like everybody else I knew. I moved into a small cramped apartment on Kings Highway, one of the busiest commercial areas in the city, and also home to one of the world's largest Jewish communities. I had found a room for rent from an Israeli who I had met in Manhattan on a trip with a friend. Not being Jewish, I had never really consciously met anyone from Israel, let alone live with them, and the idea of this complete...