HeyJaredBearing Witness
White House Tech Expert, public interest technology program founder, journalist, researcher, user experience designer bearing witness to the decline of Jewish life in America. And, recent olah to Israel. It's good to be home.
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My Study Showed the US was Not a Functioning Democracy (opens the original)
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In this essay I return to my series on how and why I concluded Israel was the safest and healthiest place for my family. This essay runs deeply wonky, so if it’s not your thing and you’d rather read more cultural criticism, just bear with me. I promise this is going somewhere good.Wishing everyone an easy fast, a functional government, and a peaceful new year.As a researcher, the first thing I do in looking at a problem is collect data to help me understand what I’m looking at. In 2021, I was in
What’s the deal with New York’s Jews? (opens the original)
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When Bureaucracy Kills (opens the original)
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What I Know After One Year in Israel (opens the original)
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After a two-month stay in the US, we’re heading back to Israel for our second year. I’m interrupting my two-week hiatus with a dispatch from Logan Airport, as we wait to board our flight to Tel Aviv. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="90
I just wanted to work. They wanted me to be someone else. (opens the original)
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The day after Donald Trump was first elected to the highest office in the land, in 2016, I attended a scheduled field trip to Camp David with colleagues from the Obama White House. It was supposed to be a celebratory trip following the election of our nation’s first woman president. Instead, everyone was bleary-eyed and nauseous. As the bus pulled away from Lafayette Square and began the drive to the Maryland hills through a morose, sobbing rain, I heard muffled retching from the back of the bus
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