Poetry

Songs of war

Israeli poets, cognizant of Tanakh, Midrash, and the new chapter of Jewish history being written today but not so different from the past, connect the Song of the Sea, Egypt and today's war.

Poems from the front

He writes about his dreams of beauty, she writes of trying to keep her head above water while he is gone.

A Rosh Chodesh prayer for our nation and its soldiers

Over a month since the Simchat Torah massacre, since the tragic loss of so many. And the IDF is avenging their murders, with G-d's help.

Representing Judaism as a baseball player and Jewish singer

Shlomo Lipman keeps God first - on the field and on the stage.

'The Giving Tree' Author:

US Postal Service stamps honor Jewish poet Shel Silverstein

USPS releases a new series of Forever stamps Friday in honor of Shel Silverstein, the Jewish author and illustrator who died in 1999.

Gone to flowers

Mankind has a great ability to unite Against.  Would we could use this strength of unity to unite For.

San Francisco Jewish street poet Jack Hirschman dies at 87

Hirschman, who released 100 works, was the city's poet laureate for three years and also translated Yiddish poetry.

My Raquel, my friend

My Raquel sits at a cafe in Tel Aviv to write, endlessly "Trying to dial myself but always a busy signal..." A story about a poet.

Up in the air

My parents were so honored to be Americans, living in the land of freedom and opportunity. They always would say: ‘Only in America’.

Israel, youngest and oldest of nations

Lockdowns, enemies, peace, politics? The eternal nation is not afraid of what lies ahead. Ode to Israel by Jorge Luis Borges.

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 catastrophe

Prize Ctee. Member Resigns After Blood Libel Poet Selected Again

Award 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 A Poem About 'Our Enemy, Zion'

The Palestinian Authority awarded an Egyptian writer for a poem that includes lines such as, "our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail."

Almond Branch: Poem to a Slain Grandson

"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.