Essays & Research
Writing & Research
Honest argument, careful study, and a commitment to saying things that are actually true — not things that are merely reassuring or popular.
Avi's writing and research explore the moral questions underneath public life: truth, communication, law, technology, relationships, dignity, and responsibility.
Her work is shaped by a belief that ethical questions should not belong only to experts. They should be part of how ordinary people, families, communities, institutions, and democracies think about the future they are building.
Current focus
Areas of inquiry
Ethics and communication
AI governance and digital responsibility
Synthetic media, truth, and public trust
Law, dignity, and social responsibility
Family and relationship ethics
Jewish thought, teaching, and moral formation
Public philosophy and wiser citizenship
Selected work
Selected writing & research
Essay
Rules That Set Us Free
Relationship ethics, moral imagination, and the language we need for ordinary life.
Read on the Modern Ethicist →Essay
A Country Is Not Loved by Pretending It Is Simple
A Fourth of July reflection on origins, duty, gratitude, America, Israel, family, and ethical patriotism.
Read on the Modern Ethicist →Essay
Israeli Identity
A personal essay on Israeli identity, narrative, service, compassion, and the responsibility to tell a fuller story.
Read on the Modern Ethicist →Essay
Stretch, Story, and the Shape of Truth
An essay on contradiction, storytelling, truth, and what it means to hold a fuller identity.
Read on the Modern Ethicist →Research paper · Zvi Meitar Institute
Redefining Freedom of Expression in the Age of Generative AI
A working paper examining how generative AI challenges existing frameworks for free expression, truth, and public discourse.
Read the working paper →Writing inquiries & collaboration
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