My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

If you go to Europe, public bathrooms have any-gender sink areas and stalls for everyone to use. This is completely reasonable. It potentially involves the destruction of the urinal industry, which I think people would be happy to see go away.

One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the door for other sorts of questions - and wounds.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.