Poetry

Poet, author Yehuda Atlas passed away at age 89, Sourasky Medical Center announces

"In his life, he acted and worked for people out of emotion and a desire to help," said the hospital when announcing Atlas's passing.

Portrait of Yehuda Atlas, children's book writer. December 03, 2012.
Directors Gabriella Lev (L) and Yael Valier explore texts with their audience through theater.

'Sarah: Text and Presence' offers a 21st-century reimagining of traditional Jewish texts

 An illustrative image of poetry.

Wait until life touches you, and the poems appear like bruises - opinion

Late poet Amir Gilboa’s rich oeuvre is celebrated at the festival.

Metula's Israeli Poets’ Festival returns to Jerusalem with all disciplinary guns blazing


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.

Poems and stories by the Jewish children of Kharkiv, Ukraine

A booklet labeled “The Lives of Children,” preserved at the National Library of Israel, contains Hebrew stories and poems written a century ago by Jewish high school students in Ukraine.

 Cover page of the booklet “The Lives of Children” composed by students at the Tarbut high school in Kharkiv

Immanuel of Rome: The Jewish Dante

Immanuel was a source of inspiration to Baroque Hebrew poet Jacob Frances (1615-67) who called him the emperor of poets in praise of his satiric verse.

AT THE bustling fair: The demand for literature rose during the pandemic.