![]() Winner of 2019 Hebrew Poetry Prize announced“Sivan brings the heavens to earth, and the opposite, using everyday language together with cadences from Jewish sources.”![]() Am Segula: Uri Tzvi Greenberg, prophet of catastropheOnly a person possessing complete love for his people can be sensitive to the fores of hatred before they are mature enough to strike. Greenberg did.![]() Blood Libel Poet Chosen, Prize Ctee. Member QuitsAward removed from radical poet amid protest, rape charges - committee decides to return prize, forcing judge who opposed at start to leave.![]() PA Leaders Teach Children Anti-Israel PoemThe Palestinian Authority awarded an Egyptian writer for a poem that includes lines such as, "our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail."![]() Almond Branch for a Merkaz Boy"Northern enemy nations came to the gates of Jerusalem.." Thus begins a poem by the grandmother of a victim of 2008's Merkaz HaRav massacre. |