Johnna Kaplan is the editor of the AJHS-NEA newsletter. A freelance writer based in Hartford, Connecticut, she covers travel, history and Jewish issues, among other topics, and has been published in newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, the Jewish Daily Forward, and Patch.com. She is the currently the editor of Hartford City Center HamletHub and writes about Connecticut on her blog, “The Size of Connecticut.”