Tresa Grauer is the Vice President for Thriving Communities at Reconstructing Judaism. She was also a lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for 12 years. Her publications include “Identity Matters: Contemporary Jewish American Writing,” in The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature, eds. Michael Kramer and Hana Wirth-Nesher, and “‘The Changing Same’: Narratives of Contemporary Jewish American Identity,” in Mapping Jewish Identities, ed. Larry Silberstein.