Anyone can share a page full of links. If you don’t know me, then what makes my recommendations any more trusted than ones you would randomly stumble upon? I encourage you to vet all of your trusted sources. Get to know them by either their personal stories, or their body of work speaking for itself. Because it’s not just readers who are guilty of confirmation bias, it is often the reporters themselves. As such, I scoured my own articles involving these subjects over the years – Israel and/or antisemitism – and I present them for you to read and get to know where I come from on the subject matter.
ARTICLES BY BOAZ:
1. The piece that motivated me to put my words into action, and help change the algorithms of our social media away from the usual anti-Israel bias (10/23/23):
2. My existence is thanks to an amazing, quick-witted escape from Nazis, that involved my Oma (grandmother) forgetting my father the baby, before returning to get him (04/30/22):
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/347473/the-two-deceptions/
3. My wishes to be supported by the general public, just as so many of us have done for other groups that are also discriminated against (05/20/21):
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/336832/who-will-speak-for-us/
4. My experiences over the years as an “other” in this often-cruel world (07/29/20):
https://jewishjournal.com/uncategorized/319646/the-lobster-effect-dont-pull-each-other-down/
5. A mystery to this very day about a supposedly Jewish, German girl whose life came and went too quickly, and who represented herself as one person, but it turned out we never really knew – but always loved (10/23/19):
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/320829/spielbergs-roots/
6. Thankfully my father has recovered in many of the most important ways, though not all. But this is the story of the end of Rosh Hashanah becoming a terrifying family near-tragedy (10/02/19):
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/305164/a-rosh-hashanah-hit-and-run/
Boaz Hepner works as a Registered Nurse in Saint John’s Health Center, and provides health education to the community at large. He grew up in LA in Pico/Robertson and lives here with his wife Adi, daughter Natalia, and son Liam. He helped clean up the neighborhood by adding the dozens of trash cans that can still be seen from Roxbury to La Cienega. He can be found with his family enjoying his passions: his multitude of friends, movies, poker and traveling.
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