He received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1980. His documentary projects include a prison drug-rehab clinic, the Moroccan Jewish community, the March of the Living, Operation Understanding (on Black-Jewish relations), and "Grandma's House" (about a program that cares for HIV-positive babies). He collaborated with Paula Wolfson on the book Jewish Mothers: Strength, Wisdom, Compassion(published by Chronicle in 2000). His first book, Facing the Wall. Americans at the Vietnam Memorial (in collaboration with Duncan Spenser) was published by Macmillan in 1986.