Julie Masis is an award-win­ning jour­nal­ist. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The For­ward, The Boston Globe, The Mon­tre­al Gazette, The Guardian, The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor, and in oth­er news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. She also pub­lish­es The Russ­ian Boston Gazette, a news­pa­per for the Russ­ian-speak­ing com­mu­ni­ty in Massachusetts.