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Home » Posts Tagged "poem"
Arts & Culture, Fall 2023

Poem | The Hidden

  • September 15, 2023
  • By author-avatar Marcela Sulak
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The terebinth tree in the Arava is at least a thousand years old, as was her mother before her.

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Arts & Culture, Featured, Summer Issue 2023

Poem | The Mysteries

  • July 17, 2023
  • By author-avatar Linda Pastan
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How to explain the poem that writes itself after the final poem, after the book has closed?

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Arts & Culture, Spring Issue 2023

Poem | Fruit of the Land

  • April 25, 2023
  • By author-avatar Yonatan Berg
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The fig tree’s fruit falls to the ground, Its purpled flesh still burning.

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Arts & Culture, Winter Issue 2023

Poem | Augury

  • January 24, 2023
  • By author-avatar Jehanne Dubrow
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We buy the house next door to my parents, because dread is proportional to the years.

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2022 September/October, Arts & Culture

Poem | ALIYAH

  • November 15, 2022
  • By author-avatar Jessica Jacobs
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Blessed are you, God our God, Sovereign of the World, who has given us the Torah of truth, planting within us life everlasting.

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2022 September/October, Arts

On Poetry | Nelly Sachs and the Poetry of Flight

  • October 3, 2022
  • By author-avatar Joshua Weiner
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Sachs dropped the masks that had let her speak through the murdered Jews of Europe and wrote from her own position in the world.

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Summer Issue 2022

Poem | A Visitor in Herzliya

  • July 19, 2022
  • By author-avatar Jean Nordhaus
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Many Jews arrive in Israel for the first time and experience a shock of recognition, as if the land and its history, both ancient and contemporary, were their own.

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Spring Issue 2022

Poem | Ketubah

  • June 22, 2022
  • By author-avatar Jason Schneiderman
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The ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract that dates back to Talmudic times, is an object of ritual beauty.

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Arts & Culture, Winter Issue 2022

Poem | “The Last Jew in Vinnitsa”

  • February 8, 2022
  • By author-avatar Sandy Solomon
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Said to be on the back of a photo found in a German soldier’s album, these words have attached themselves to the image itself. 

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2021 November/December, Arts & Culture

Poem | Portrait of the Poet’s Grandmother (Lighting Candles)

  • December 3, 2021
  • By author-avatar David Biespiel
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In many Jewish homes, lighting candles at dusk marks a shift to sacred time, the moment when the Sabbath starts—or a holiday, a yahrzeit.

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2021 September/October, Arts & Culture

Poem | Apple of Imperfection

  • October 1, 2021
  • By author-avatar Varda Genossar
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First speech is the speech of love.

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Arts & Culture, Summer Issue 2021

Poem | The Season When My Life Turned

  • July 7, 2021
  • By author-avatar Jessica Greenbaum
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I have been the first person awake in my house every morning of my life.

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