Poetry
'Sarah: Text and Presence' offers a 21st-century reimagining of traditional Jewish texts
Sarah: Text and Presence, created by Gabriella Lev and Yael Valier, is the second collaboration between Theatre Company Jerusalem and Theater and Theology.
Wait until life touches you, and the poems appear like bruises - opinion
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Lahav played a major role in shaping popular Israeli music across generations and wrote the lyrics for many songs that have become embedded in the country’s canon.
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
A simple wedding invitation from over 60 years ago provides memories of family and the moments that shaped a life.
U2 releases EP featuring poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai
Israel Prize winner Yehuda Amichai, who died in 2000, is considered by many to have been the greatest modern Israeli poet.
Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University
Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the university billed as bringing “a leading public intellectual into the academic setting."
Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview
Gad Kaynar-Kissinger channels his childhood wounds, Jewish-German ancestry into poetry that provokes and reveals.
Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied having an affair with former New York Magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi.
‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem
The show features 20 meticulously crafted artistic prints by the two contemporary visual artists, in response to poems by three English-language poets.
Rhyme & reason: The annual Ushpizin Festival returns to Jerusalem
This year’s bash takes place, under the continued aegis of Confederation House and its long-serving head Effie Benaya, on October 8-10.
Jerusalem highlights: October 3-9
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Jerusalem highlights: August 29-September 4
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