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."

BRITISH AUTHOR and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray gestures as he speaks on stage during an evening against the rise of anti-semitism in Europe, at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris on June 3, 2024.
Kaynar-Kissinger and his fellow actor brother, Doron, (L) put on a Holocaust-related stage production in Germany.

Writing for love’s sake: The poetic world of Gad Kaynar-Kissinger - interview

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Jilted lover releases erotic poetry allegedly written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

‘Poems as Invitations’ exhibition view.

‘Poems as Invitations’: An exhibition on English poetry in Jerusalem


Israeli Poet Ronny Someck’s latest work 'Cristal Blues' translated into French

Pascal Gueta and Ronny Someck in maison de la poesie

On This Day: 70 years since 13 Jews are killed in Night of Murdered Poets

The killing of Soviet Jewish poets was seen as a crackdown against the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee and part of Stalin's increasingly antisemitic policies before his death.

 Albert Einstein (Middle) is seen standing between Yiddish poet Itzik Feffer and Russian Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels in 1943. Feffer would be killed in the Night of the Murdered Poets, while Mikhoels was killed in what may have been an assassination ordered by Joseph Stalin.

Helen Bar-Lev: 50 years of adventure in Israel

Artist and poet Helen Bar-Lev has reinvented herself in Jerusalem, Safed and the Upper Galilee.

ART BY Helen Bar-Lev: Salant Street as seen from the Ethiopian compound, brown watercolor with brush and pen.

Maybe the real angels are the friends we've made along the way - opinion

How often in our lives have we said: “You’re an angel!” and meant it, to friends who have been there for us when we most needed them?

 YOU CAN meet angels at the supermarket or beauty salon.

Palestinian org.: Israeli poem read by Pelosi 'romanticizes Israeli settlement'

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) called the Israeli poet a romanticizer of an "illegal Israeli settlement" on an "ethnically cleansed Palestinian village." The song is a war anthem from the 80s.

 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reacts to the overturning of Roe v Wade during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, June 24, 2022.

Nancy Pelosi reads Israeli poem in response to Roe v. Wade reversal

This is not the first time that the US Speaker has quoted Ehud Manor's poem.

 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the Knesset, February 16, 2022

Wow! A poetic evening to remember

Working together with co-editor Mindy Aber Barad Golembo, the magazine was launched that evening at the Pomeranz book store

 The audience at the Deronda CONVERSE-ation gathering at Pomeranz bookstore in Jerusalem.

Under the Same Sky – Israeli Poetry in Turkish

 Under the same sun, poetry book

First International Poetry Festival held in Larnaca, Cyprus

Ronny Someck

Dorothy Parker: Witty, wise, wistful and wonderful

I wish I could have met her, just once, held her hand and whispered, “I understand.”

 HER LETHAL wit marked her out from the start.