Poetry
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
Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem
From the editor: Speaking the truth
Rafi Dobrin sometimes overstated his case, but he made many salient points, which – like him – are worthy and worth remembering.
Poems by the readers: The Vow
The following letters are poems submitted by poets who happen to be readers of and contributors to The Jerusalem Report.
Why you should cherish and love your books
Books are someone’s dreams, and you live several lives while you read them.
U of Haifa English dep. hosts convicted terror supporter as guest lecturer
Dareen Tatour is a poet who writes about her opposition to Israel while inciting violence and supporting terror.
Yom Kippur poem Hineni examines the power of humility
We usually choose political leaders by how they look and how they speak and how they dress; we should really choose candidates by how they behave towards their staff and their peers.
Is writing poetry barbaric after the Holocaust? - book review
Menachem Rosensaft, a second-generation survivor leader and a political activist is also a poet, whose newest work reveals that although he left Bergen-Belsen, Bergen-Belsen has never left him.
Piyyut: Sacred poetry in authentic Jewish music
Roni Ish-Ran, a paytanist and cantor of the tradition is the organizer of a festival of paytanim taking place in Jerusalem each year for the past eight years.
Historian Clinton Bailey waxes poetic about Bedouin culture
Bailey: "I'd always have something to talk about with Bedouin I met because of the poetry."
When a poet and an artist take over an academic research center
A subversive and humorous exhibition by Agi Mishol and Yoav Weinfeld presents an unconventional collaboration in an unlikely location.
Jerusalem highlights July 9-15: What's new in Israel's capital?
Soviet war films, art exhibits, fitness classes and a panel including former-teenagers, now adults, from the 2005 Disengagement from Gush Katif.
