Poetry

Grape Juice and Challah

Grape Juice and Challah, Every Friday night, After Hebrew School,  A child’s sweet delight.  Apples…

Spread Hummus Not Hate

Chickpea, sesame, Garlic, lemon; All agree. Cooked and mashed Or balled and fried. Even better,…

Two Tribes, Three Sisters

Two Tribes, Three Sisters  by Charis Nwaozuzu Two lands lost One reclaimed Both called “savages”…

Protestors on the College Green

Protestors on the College Green by Lena Renee Anzarut they read history books, ink still…

21st Century Judean

This poem is a meditation on the modern Jewish experience. Visual design by Charis Nwaozuzu…

Untitled

“Untitled”by Aiden @jewishandlearning Do you not hear it in your bones?the hollow ringingthe hallowed tonesThe desperate…

Great Beast in the East

Great Beast in the East There is a Great Beast in the East, her name…

Benefactor

Maxim D. Shrayer wrote “Benefactor” to memorialize the passing of his former classmate, Ilia Salita,…

A Drought That Never Ends

When it rains, the tulips in my mother’s garden sing like angels heralding  a Saviour:…

I Had a Brother

I Had a Brother

I have a brother with whom I stood in fields of ashes and soot We…

The Struggling of Jacob: by Alex Horn A poem on the joys, pains, and paradoxes of being Jewish in a largely non-Jewish world

The Struggling of Jacob

The Struggling of JacobBy Alex Horn Islam is “surrender to God”. Israel is “wrestling with…

Memories

Hana Tzipora is a third-generation descendant of a Holocaust survivor. Her grandfather left Germany for…

A Gazan Family Celebration

The family is gathered in the salon: Dad and Mom and Little Brother. The phone…

Spring

Skyward spray of wildflowers, delicate fireworks of yellow, white and red almost reaching your knees.…

Tell Me

Tell me if you understand this  Because I don’t.  I never have, and I don’t…

Red-Headed Jews

Alex wrote this poem for the red-headed members of his Jewish family — yesterday, today, and…

I Am That I Am

The biblical verse referenced is from Shemot (The Book of Exodus). “And God said unto…

So Says the Light

“So Says the Light” is a poem by Jesse Aviv Wolfsthal. This piece deftly mixes…

A Time for War and A Time for Peace

On December 17th, 2023, “A Time for War and A Time for Peace” was published…

The Minor Chords

The Minor Chords” is a poem by Jill Blum. The graphic design was done by…

“Two Same Roads” by Govind Vashistha

Two Same Roads

Inspired by one of the most famous poems in all of literature — “The Road…

“Surface Mail” by Mildred Faintly.

Surface Mail

In America, Israel was a map on my wall, a page of Bible, a newspaper…

Soldier Boy, Home for the Weekend

“Soldier Boy, Home for the Weekend” is the debut work of Jesse Aviv Wolfsthal, a…