Personal Essays

Carrying a Smaller Bag

Reflections on a year of losing weight

Aug 5 • Lewie Pollis

Why Is This Night Like So Many Other Nights?

On Passover tradition, timeless connection, and Lois Baron

Apr 2 • Lewie Pollis

...And Days of Auld Offline

My 2025 in review, from a year of finding better things to do

Dec 29, 2025 • Lewie Pollis

Sunday Morning in Rhode Island

Reflections from a Providence resident and Brown alumnus

Dec 14, 2025 • Lewie Pollis

The Antisemitic Fight Against Antisemitism

A Passover plea to let Jewish people define our own values

Apr 13, 2025 • Lewie Pollis

It Should Always Be This Fun

Preserving the ubiquitous joy of Opening Day

Apr 2, 2025 • Lewie Pollis

Dissenting Into Madness

On political commentary in the age of Trump

Jan 20, 2025 • Lewie Pollis

When Auld Acquaintance Is Forgot

My 2024 in review, through a lens of credibility and compassion

Dec 31, 2024 • Lewie Pollis

Why I Voted for Kamala Harris

Reflections on a necessary compromise

Oct 30, 2024 • Lewie Pollis

I Am Not Joe Biden's Token

On Biden's cynical weaponization of Jewish identity

May 9, 2024 • Lewie Pollis

A Marshmallow Twist on the Seder Plate

Celebrating Passover in the shadow of Gaza

Apr 18, 2024 • Lewie Pollis

Over the Rainbow

A tribute to Joanne Lewis (1933-2024)

Feb 23, 2024 • Lewie Pollis

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