Zvi Volk is a staff writer in the OU Communications Department based in Jerusalem. He grew up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC and attended Indiana University. After graduation he came to Israel and then went back to Indiana for graduate school. He has worked as a writer and editor for the US Department of State, the IDF Spokesman's Office and several high tech companies. An avid bicyclist, he made aliyah by bicycle in the mid-1970s. He still participates in an annual five-day charity bicycle ride.