Lauren Deutsch

Living in Rochester, N.Y., Lauren Deutsch is the executive director of Disability Law United, a national legal services organization. She teaches topics in Jewish thought, and studies at Midreshet Lindenbaum’s International Halakhic Scholars program.

In Print / Perspectives / Op-Eds

I Can’t Eat That – But It’s Not My Fault: A Letter to My Non-Jewish Co-worker

By Lauren Deutsch

The idea that religion is a personal choice that can be separated from every other identity marker in your life is a fundamentally non-Jewish way of seeing the world.