Rebec­ca Sug­ar writes the col­umn, The Cock­tail Par­ty Con­trar­i­an, which appears in The New York Sun every oth­er Fri­day. Her work has also been pub­lished in The Wall Street Jour­nal, Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er, USA Today, Spec­ta­tor USA, Jew­ish News Syn­di­cate, The Chris­t­ian Post, The Jew­ish Jour­nal, and more. She spent 15 years in Jew­ish com­mu­nal life before becom­ing a writer. Rebec­ca holds a BA in lit­er­a­ture from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and a master’s degree in his­to­ry from Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary. She lives in New York City.