Avi Dresner is a writer, and executive producer of the forthcoming documentary, “The Rabbi & The Reverend.”
Avi Dresner
By Avi Dresner
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First Person How I rustled up a minyan to say kaddish on Capitol Hill
As the Democrats’ chief deputy whip, Rep. Deborah Wasserman Schultz herds her colleagues for key votes. So I figured she could rustle up nine Jews.
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News ‘I’ll have what he’s having’: Told he had little time left, my rabbi-dad wanted a last meal at Katz’s deli
There was no way my father, 92 and with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer, could wait in the 40-minute line for what we knew would be his last meal at Katz’s Deli, so we dropped my sister off and went to park. Miraculously, after a single circling, we found a parking spot a block from…
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Opinion Dropping my kids off at Jewish summer camp taught me how to let go
For many, our slow-motion exodus from the pandemic has yielded a harvest of mundane yet miraculous firsts — handshakes, hugs, houseguests, days back in the office, unmasked cappuccinos at our favorite cafes and many more. I have savored these reunions with life as I once knew it, yet none of them prepared me for dropping…
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News Civil rights icon Andrew Young reflects on his lifelong relationship with the Jewish community
“I guess I’m a Jew,” Andrew Young says with surprise, like it’s occurring to him for the first time, which it probably is, although it definitely shouldn’t be. It is June 7th, 2021 and we are facing each other in a basement studio of the Georgia Public Broadcasting building in Atlanta, which also houses the…
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Opinion 57 years ago, my rabbi dad was arrested marching for civil rights. What can we learn from his example?
Juneteenth is almost here. The holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, is observed annually on the anniversary of June 19, 1865. People and news traveled much slower in those days, but true freedom took even longer. There would be another century of “legal” Jim Crow segregation and discrimination until the passage of…
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News Wrong Turn on the Way to Medical School? Not for These Gym Jews
We’ve all pretty much come to recognize that, professionally speaking, Jews today can be just about anything. The old immigrant stereotypes (tailor, peddler) faded away long ago, much as more recent aspirational visions (lawyer, doctor), too, seem shopworn and limiting. But still, there occasionally comes a job that seems, well, too goyish for a Jew….
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