Elissa has been writing about the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years. Her work appears in publications like The Atlantic, The New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, TheWeek.com, and elsewhere. She is a former contributing writer at CNN.com and Slate, where her cultural criticism about motherhood appeared on DoubleX. She is the associate director of LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture and the artistic director of the LABA hub in the Bay Area.

Deborah Joselow plays a critical role in fulfilling UJA’s organizational vision to care for those in need, inspire Jewish life, and build communities of meaning and purpose in New York, in Israel, and around the world. Deborah is an ordained Reform rabbi with a master’s degree in Jewish education.