Poetry
Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing
If your idea of poetry is a neatly rhyming ditty, attending the festival should thoroughly disabuse you of that constricted notion and open up broad new vistas for your literary epiphany enjoyment.
Voices Israel anthology 2025: Celebrating English poetry shaped by war, love, and memory
Israeli lyricist Tzruya Lahav dies at 74 after cancer battle
Wedding invitation from 1955: A stroll through cherished memories - opinion
Jerusalem highlights September 23-29
What's new to do in Israel's capital?
What is special about Elul, other than approaching Rosh Hashanah?
What is special about the month of Elul, other than the fact that it is leading us towards the Days of Awe of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
Famed Israeli poet Gili Haimovich gives poetry reading in Chile
The poet visited Chile in late April and early May of this year. This was Israel’s first cultural visit to Chile since the pandemic and provided an opportunity for face-to-face meetings.
Amir Akiva Segal: Protest Poetry in Israel
Segal’s new book, Protest Poetry in Israel (due to be published in Hebrew), examines the developments that led to what he calls “the crystallization of Israeli political poetry.”
Israeli memory master Eran Katz dazzles audiences in Thailand
Israeli Poet Ronny Someck’s latest work 'Cristal Blues' translated into French
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.
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.
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?
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.