Avram Mlotek is a writer, rabbi, and social worker. He is the author of Why Jews Do That or 30 Questions Your Rabbi Never Answered, Passover in a Pandemic, and Butterfly. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, JTA, The Forward, and Tablet. He cocreated the operetta Amid Falling Walls, which features music and poetry written during the Holocaust and won the 2024 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue. Named one of America's "Most Inspiring Rabbis" by The Forward, he is a cofounder of Base, a Jewish pluralistic movement of homes for community and learning. A grandchild of Yiddish cultural leaders, Mlotek holds rabbinic ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, an MSW from Fordham University, and a BA from Brandeis University. He lives in New York with his three children and dog, Shoko.