Don Futterman

In addition to Don’s novel, Adam Unrehearsed, a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist, you can hear Don’s hilarious and moving performance pieces on his limited-series podcast, Futterman’s One-Man Show, now featuring a brand-new monologue, Three Baseball Games with Dad, about a Met-fan-father and his Yankee-fan-son. Don has also published two children’s books featuring his three actual kids

For 13 years, Don has been a co-host of TLV1’s The Promised Podcast a weekly review of politics and society in Israel with more than four million downloads. Don has written for The Times of Israel and has been a columnist for Haaretz and The Daily Beast.

Don is also the founding director of the Israel Center for Educational Innovation (ICEI), Israel's leading non-profit organization for turning around underperforming elementary schools serving low income Jewish and Arab communities, and the director of the Moriah Fund in Israel, a foundation which works to strengthen Israel's liberal democracy and advance civil and human rights. Don grew up in Flushing and has lived in Israel since 1994.